Northend Excavating

About Northend Excavating

Up in Allouez they measure winter in feet rather than inches — the tall painted snow gauge along US-41 north of Mohawk keeps score, and most years it climbs past two hundred. Northend Excavating plows in that country, where Lake Superior manufactures snow all night and delivers it before breakfast. Driveways, yards and lots in the old copper towns get cleared and cleared again, banks pushed back before they close in the turning room. There is craft in it: knowing where the culvert lies under four feet of white, leaving space for the next storm because there is always a next storm. When a Keweenaw driveway is open at daylight in January, somebody worked for it.