The 970 stretches across a lot of Colorado, but in Silverthorne it means a growing season measured in weeks rather than months. Between the last frost of June and the first of September, 970 Services LLC keeps the rounds moving up and down the Highway 9 corridor — mowing, trimming, edging, and carrying the clippings away before the light drops behind the ridge. Mountain grass grows in sudden bursts after a warm rain, and the timing of a cut is half the work. The reward is a yard that looks intended: one even height, one clean line where turf gives way to gravel. A short summer is no reason to let a lawn go shaggy.