Northwest Land and Snow

About Northwest Land and Snow

Mount Si stands close enough over North Bend that its snow line is the first thing anyone checks before deciding how bad the morning commute up I-90 will be, and Northwest Land and Snow reads that same mountain before every storm. The company clears driveways and lots down in the valley while the pass above stays the real winter, working the Snoqualmie River bottomland where fog pools thick most mornings even when Mount Si's upper slopes are already bright with new snow. A valley driveway scraped clean while the peak overhead still wears its full winter coat is two kinds of winter separated by a few thousand feet of elevation. The routes cover the town's river-bottom streets and the properties strung along the old highway toward the pass, ground that catches whatever spills down off the mountain. It's work done in the shadow of the one landmark everyone in town uses to read the weather.