Snow behaves differently under the trees. Marshall Forestry Solutions clears the wooded drives and lanes around Steamboat Springs, where lodgepole and aspen hold their load until an afternoon of sun sends it down in slabs, and where a lane can be drifted shut at one end and nearly bare at the other. They plow, widen, and take back the inches the banks steal week after week, so a road is as wide in March as it was in November. Buffalo Pass just above town collects snow in quantities that are hard to put into words, and the valley beneath it does not go hungry either. The reward is simple: a clear line cut through the timber, and headlights that never have to hunt for it.