Troy holds the lowest elevation in Montana, tucked into a deep river valley where the Kootenai runs wide and green below the Cabinet Mountains, and storms moving in off the Pacific tend to unload here before they climb any farther east. Cedar and hemlock grow thick enough around town that some yards barely see direct sun even at midday, and Peak 2 Peak Lawncare knows those shaded properties from the mowing side of the business before it ever meets them with a plow. Because the valley sits so low and closed in by timber, snow here can come heavier and wetter than almost anywhere else in the state, clinging to branches and packing hard against anything it lands on. A driveway under that kind of canopy holds its ice longer than an open field would, so the work often means breaking through a crust rather than pushing loose powder aside. Most winter mornings in Troy start the same way: a lane cleared down to the river road while the Cabinets disappear into cloud overhead, out of sight until the weather decides to let them back into view.