Pagosa Peak stands over town like a weather gauge — when its shoulders vanish, the snow is already on its way down. RockyMountain Services LLC reads that sign and moves, plowing drives, lots and access roads across Pagosa Springs before the accumulation can set up hard. Air this thin makes for dry, restless snow that drifts and re-drifts, so a lot cleared at nine can want another pass by two in the afternoon. The mountains hand this town both its winter and its living, and opening a way through is simply the price of the view. By first light the pavement shows again.