Alpine Southwest, LLC

About Alpine Southwest, LLC

North of Weiser, US-95 climbs Freezeout Hill on its way toward Midvale and Cambridge, a grade that earns its name honestly, catching wind and ice long after the valley floor below has gone back to bare gravel. Alpine Southwest, LLC works that kind of exposed ground, plowing and sanding driveways and lanes where the weather hits harder than it does down along the river. A storm that's only a dusting in town can be a whiteout on the grade, and getting a driveway cleared and sanded before dark matters more up there than almost anywhere else nearby. There's a bluntness to the work in weather like that, blade down, sand spread, no room for a half-finished pass with more wind coming. When the sky finally clears and the hill stands out sharp and white above the valley, a plowed lane through it feels like a small, hard-won thing.