Blackrock Slate

About Blackrock Slate

Wind off Lake Champlain reaches Charlotte with nothing to slow it down — across the water the Adirondacks stand white, and the ferry dock takes the weather first. Blackrock Slate plows through it: driveways, lanes and lots cleared, walks and steps shoveled to the surface, sand set down where ice forms on a slope. On the open ground near the shore a drive can fill in twice in one night, so it gets opened twice. The result that matters is small and exact — headlights at six in the morning finding a clear run out to Route 7.