P'n'D Logging and Tree Service

About P'n'D Logging and Tree Service

Down along the shoreline at Lake Wilderness and Lake Sawyer, where cedar limbs hang low over the water and cabin driveways wind back through the trees, P'n'D Logging and Tree Service works winter mornings the same patient way they work a stand of timber. A skin of ice at the lake's edge is usually the first sign a hard freeze has taken hold of Maple Valley, and this crew reads it the way they'd read a felling notch — a cue to get moving. Plow blades clear the narrow lakeside lanes and driveways cut between cedars, careful not to nick a trunk or a low branch on the turn. Watching a clean strip of gravel reappear under snow, framed by dark cedar and pale lake ice, is the kind of small scene that makes the early start worth it. By midmorning, the lake road is open and the cabins are reachable again.