By January, Snowy Mountain wears white down to the shoulder and the smoke from the camps along the lake stands straight up in the cold. High Mountain Tree Service works those deep-winter weeks when snow load starts to tell on the big pines and a limb lets go without a sound. Tree removal up here is done with room to think: drop it in the open, buck it, leave the yard clear behind you. Pruning and tree trimming belong to the shoulder seasons, lifting hemlock off a roofline, cutting back the growth that leans over a driveway between the plow banks. And when an Adirondack storm shuts a road with a tangle of limbs, storm damage cleanup is simply the work of giving a household its way out again.