Hicks Tree Climbing Services

About Hicks Tree Climbing Services

Dooryards in Colrain run right up against the stone walls, and the walls run on up into the hills — maple and hemlock leaning over dirt roads that climb away from the North River. This is tree country, and Hicks Tree Climbing Services works it from the inside: up in the crown on rope, taking a limb at a time, easing a sugar maple back off a roofline, bringing down the wood that winter has loosened. There is a plain pleasure in the after — the dooryard opened to light, the brush hauled off, the drive cut clean and dark before the bus comes grinding up the grade. In Colrain and the hill towns around it, that is the shape of the year: high in the branches while the leaves are on, low behind the plow when the valley goes white.