The name has a rope in it, and so does most of the work: fifty feet up a river cottonwood on the Uncompahgre, with the San Juans stacked white to the south. Climb! Tree Services prunes the big ranch-yard shade trees that were set out to break the wind off Dallas Divide and thins the crowns that have grown heavy over a barn roof. Removals go down in sections on a line rather than dropped whole, because the ground below is somebody's whole summer. After a wet spring storm they clear the broken tops and the branch across the county road before the day warms up. By evening the light comes back off the reservoir and the place looks put back together.