Dahle Construction

About Dahle Construction

The Salmon River doesn't freeze so much as it steams, running cold and fast between canyon walls that hold the frost long after sunrise, and Dahle Construction is usually out along the ranch roads before that frost burns off. This is remote country — the highway climbs to Lost Trail Pass in one direction and follows the river north in the other — and a construction crew here already owns the equipment a winter demands, so plowing the long driveways and building sites just becomes part of the season's work. Mornings start with cottonwoods rimed white along the river bottom and end with gravel driveways scraped back to bare ground, ranch by ranch, lane by lane. There's a particular rhythm to clearing snow in this ranch country, where properties spread wide and the nearest neighbor might be a mile off. Dahle Construction plows driveways, ranch access roads, and building sites around Salmon through the winter months.