Auger Snowblower on Lizard Head Pass

We won't worry about our conductor declaring a busted drive shaft from the snowshed here at Lizard Head... A, there's no snowshed, B, this isn't the Galloping Goose. So there's no real need for the C.W. McCall references here. Instead, we find a CDOT (Colorado Department of Transportation) tractor pushing an auger snowblower toward the pass's summit on Colorado Highway 145. I'd shot this footage and a few stills while I still had possession of a Nikon Zf which I'd rented for the Durango and Silverton's Winter Photographer's Train (the final one with coal-burning locomotives on the railroad).
The operator flagged me down asking for still images so he could show his children, so I'm also posting this to show it to them in operation in video. Enjoy this quick break from the steam locomotives!