Hermann Outdoors

About Hermann Outdoors

New Florence sits where the bluffs above the Missouri River settle down toward the old rail bed that's now the Katy Trail, a town small enough that its main street empties out by full dark and fills again slowly the next morning. Hermann Outdoors works those same quiet streets and the driveways branching off them, clearing snow before the trail crowd and the daily commuters both start moving. The bluffs hold onto cold air a little longer than the flat trail bed below them, so a morning fog often sits in the low ground while the ridge above stays clear and bright. The crew works top to bottom that way, clearing the high driveways first while the fog still has the valley, then working down toward the trail as the light burns through. What's left by mid-morning is a town ready for its day, bare pavement under a sky that, an hour earlier, hadn't decided whether to clear at all.