Basin sits low in the Bighorn Basin, a stretch of irrigated farm ground and red-dirt badlands with the Bighorn Mountains standing up sharp along the eastern skyline, close enough some winter mornings to look freshly painted white while the town itself only sees frost. Rocky Mountain Tree Service spends its year among the cottonwoods that line the Bighorn River and the shade trees planted along the town's older streets, and a heavy wet snow — rarer here than a dry one, but harder on a limb — brings the same crew out to check what the ice has done to a canopy before anyone parks under it. High desert winters run dry and cold more often than deep, but when a real storm does drop snow across the basin's irrigated fields, driveways and yards under those same cottonwoods hold onto it in patches the open farmland sheds fast. The crew clears snow from residential yards and driveways around Basin, working the tree-lined lots first since that's where the risk from a broken limb runs highest. By afternoon the Bighorns are already shedding what they caught, snow sliding off the high faces while the basin floor stays dry and quiet.