Classy Landscapes

About Classy Landscapes

A dusting of snow on the Vermilion Cliffs above Kanab turns the whole skyline two colors at once, red rock under white, and it rarely lasts past midday — but the driveways and walks in its shadow hold onto the cold far longer than the cliffs do. This crew, usually shaping the beds and lawns that make the most of Kanab's long growing season, switches to plow and shovel on the mornings that dusting shows up, clearing paths before the day's first tour vans pull out of the motels headed toward Zion or Bryce. The cliffs shed their white faster than a shaded driveway ever does, so the actual hazard usually outlasts the view that draws everyone's eye upward. The work is brief compared to a mountain town's season, but exact — a red-rock town isn't built for snow, and a patch of ice on a sandstone step is easy to miss until it isn't. Clearing it early keeps a rare Kanab snow day from becoming anyone's rough one.