Out on the section-line roads around Johnstown, snow doesn't only fall — it travels, lifting off a bare field and setting back down as a hard drift across the gravel. That's the kind of winter Botterill Excavating is built for: loaders and pusher boxes, wide lots and long approaches, driveways that run a quarter mile before they reach a house. A storm on this side of Weld County can leave the yard passable and the entrance impossible, and the fix is weight, reach and patience. Done right, there's a square, wide-open lot at first light and piles stacked where they won't melt back across the lane. Snow work in Johnstown and the country around it.