Waterville Valley measures its winters in feet rather than inches, with the Mad River running black between white banks and Tecumseh holding snow long after the flatlands have given it up. Valley Run Property Services plows through all of it — driveways and condo lots opened, banks cut down before they close the road width in, landings and paths dug out, sand laid where ice sets in the shade. Then the melt comes off the ridges, the valley greens in a rush, and the mowers come out for a season that never overstays. Summer is the cut on its schedule, trimming around decks and posts, and cleanups at either end of a very short year. Both jobs come down to the same thing: a place ready the moment somebody pulls in.