Wind off the Gore Range arrives with something to say. Lodgepole and spruce crowd right up to the property lines in Silverthorne, and a heavy May snow — the wet kind that comes after everyone has put the shovels away — can bend a limb over a roofline overnight. Alpine Tree Services LLC works both ends of that: trees pruned, deadwood and downed limbs taken out and hauled off, then the plow moving at first light to open drives and walks. Summer brings the mowing and trimming, the yard put back in order beneath the canopy. There is a particular quiet after a storm when the drive is clear, the branches are off the roof, and the range stands white and indifferent above it all.