Every house in Pagosa Springs has a shovel leaning by the door, and every winter brings a storm that makes that shovel look optimistic. Pop's Snow Removal is what happens next — plowing driveways, opening walkways, clearing the parking spot down to something a person can stand on. South of town toward Echo Canyon the drifts settle in behind the ridges and take their sweet time leaving. Clearing snow is honest work with an obvious result: before, you were stuck; now you are not. Somebody has to be out in it, and it may as well be someone who does not mind the hour.