360 Dirt Works

About 360 Dirt Works

Above Battle Ground the roads climb into fir and red alder before they ever reach Yacolt, and by November the ruts along them hold frost long past sunrise. 360 Dirt Works runs plow blades and loader buckets up those foothill driveways, the same equipment that graded them in July now scraping ice down to gravel before the town below has even stirred. The company works the acreage lots east toward Sunset Highway, where long private drives wind through timber and nobody's coming to dig you out but a neighbor with a machine. Ice here forms in the low spots first, where cold air pools between the ridges, and clearing it is less about drama than about knowing which bend holds the ice a day after the rest has thawed. By the time the fog lifts off the pasture, the gravel underneath is bare again.