The band comes across Leelanau around midnight, and by two the streetlights in Traverse City are just cones of falling white. Bares Outdoor Services LLC works those hours — plowing, shoveling and salting so the first alarm clock of the morning meets an open driveway instead of a problem. Snow off Lake Michigan does not so much fall as accumulate in layers, one squall stacked on the last, which means the job is rarely finished in a single pass. There is a particular pride in a walkway cleared down to the concrete with the steps salted and the mailbox reachable. That is the whole ambition, repeated all winter.