Mont Pleasant sits high enough that a driveway up there can be its own small mountain pass at four in the morning. AL'S Landscaping takes those on — the climb, the back-drag, the turn at the top where there is never quite enough room. Snow gets pushed to the side that will not slide back down, walks get cut to bare pavement, and the apron gets opened a second time after the city plow comes through and rebuilds it. A car that backs out clean at six-thirty is the whole report. Around Schenectady that is the shape of the job: early, quiet, finished before anyone is awake to watch it happen.