Fog off the Sound climbs the bluff into downtown Edmonds most winter mornings before the first commuters are on the road, and Cedar One Construction is usually already on site somewhere in that mist, framing an addition or setting cedar shakes on a roof with a view of the water once the air clears. Snow changes the morning's order of work entirely: framing waits, and the crew instead walks every job site on its list, clearing the plywood ramps and gravel staging areas that a subcontractor or an inspector will need to cross before the day's real work can start. Edmonds' hillside lots complicate that further, since a site halfway up the bluff can be dry gravel while one two blocks toward the water sits under an inch of fresh snow, depending entirely on which way the slope faces the wind off the Sound. The crew checks each site rather than assuming, then clears access from the street up to wherever the framing actually is. Materials still need to move that day if a delivery is scheduled, so a plowed path wide enough for a lumber truck matters as much as a shoveled footpath. By the time the fog burns off the water, most of the crew's sites are safe enough to walk without watching every step.