Alpine Specialty Earthworks

About Alpine Specialty Earthworks

February in Frisco arrives clear and blue-cold, the kind of morning when the snowpack out on the Meadow Creek flats squeaks underfoot and chimney smoke stands straight up in the still air. Alpine Specialty Earthworks reads a property the way you would read ground — where the wind loads a drift, where meltwater will run and refreeze by four o'clock, where a bank can be pushed without burying the mailbox. The work is plowing and blading, walk and step clearing, treating the slick spots, and hauling snow off lots that have simply run out of room to stack it. It is heavy, cold, unglamorous labor that ends in something plain and good: an open driveway, a safe path to the door, a place free to get on with its winter. They stay in the valley, working Frisco and the towns along the Blue River and the reservoir shore.