North of Saratoga Springs the land begins to lift toward the Palmertown Range, and the first real snow of the year almost always arrives from that direction. Adirondack Services LLC works the hours before the town wakes, plowing driveways and lots while the Northway is still a string of taillights in the dark. The work is measured in clean pavement: a turnaround wide enough to swing a car around, a walkway salted before anyone reaches for a shovel. Storms here can stack up for days, so the crew comes back between rounds rather than waiting for the sky to finish. By the time morning light finds the ridges, the driveways below them are already open.