Manitou Incline enthusiasts celebrated the official reopening of the trail after a third and final round of repairs—and Timberline Landscaping of Colorado Springs, Colorado, celebrated the successful completion of a job like no other.
"Every job has its own complexity, but nothing quite compared to that one there," says Timberline owner Tim Emick. With every job, Emick's goal is to "create a little bit of heaven”—whether that's sweating through 2,000-plus feet of elevation gain in a mile, relaxing by a fire pit in the backyard or enjoying the holiday season with a spectacular display of lights.
Emick joined Todd Even in starting Timberline in 1982. Emick, then 21, and with a ranching and farming background, says he enjoyed the work from the start—doing landscapes, building retaining walls, being outside. When Even left at the end of 1991, Emick became the sole owner. It was a starting-over period, Emick says, coming out of a serious downturn that had seen Colorado Springs labeled as the foreclosure capital of the country.
Over the years, the company has had to cope with other tough times, including the Great Recession. To survive and thrive, "we've worked to diversify our company as much as we could over the years," Emick says.
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