Soda Springs sits high enough in its mountain valley that the geyser downtown — capped now, set off on a schedule instead of on its own whim — still throws its plume up into air cold enough to freeze it into a small local snow shower some winter mornings. Craig's Backhoe Services LLC works that same elevation and cold into its plow routes, running heavy equipment built for phosphate-country ground work against driveways and lots once the geyser crowd has thinned out for the season. The valley holds snow late here, tucked up against the Wasatch Range foothills, and a backhoe outfit that already knows how to move earth in this ground has an easy enough time moving what falls on top of it. Driveways out along the valley benches, lots downtown, access roads toward the phosphate operations — the routes cover a wide, high, cold stretch of country. Craig's Backhoe Services clears driveways, lots, and access roads around Soda Springs through the long mountain-valley winter.