Friendly Handyman

About Friendly Handyman

Gallatin Gateway marks the spot where the valley narrows and the canyon walls close in around the river on the road toward Big Sky, and the old depot at the Gallatin Gateway Inn still stands at the mouth of it like a reminder of when the train, not the highway, brought people through. Friendly Handyman works the driveways and walkways on this stretch, where a canyon-mouth wind can pile snow against a garage door on one property while leaving the ranch next door barely dusted. Traffic bound for the ski hills up the canyon doesn't slow down for a residential driveway buried overnight, so getting those cleared before the morning commute starts matters as much here as anywhere. The Gallatin River runs open and steaming in the cold along the valley bottom, throwing just enough mist into the air some mornings to frost the fence lines white before the sun ever clears the canyon rim. This is a crossroads kind of place, and getting driveways cleared early enough means whoever's heading up the canyon or down to Bozeman gets out on time.