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Rocky Mountain Snow Guards Inc.
Stopping snow with smart design
By Emma Peterson. Brian Cross and Shawn deAngelo share how engineered snow retention systems protect people and property. In this episode of Roofing Road Trips®, Karen Edwards sits down with Brian Cross and Shawn deAngelo. Brian is the VP of sales and marketing from Rocky Mountain Snow Guards and also ...
One contest, two incredible projects and countless pounds of snow stabilized
By Emma Peterson. Learn firsthand from award-winning contractors about the importance of snow retention. In a new Roofing Road Trips® episode, Karen Edwards sat down to discuss the 2025 “Show Us Our Snow Guards” contest sponsored by Rocky Mountain Snow Guards with Adrian Oliver, Josh Yandle and Brian Cross. 2025 ...
Sol Vista Roofing teams up with Rocky Mountain Snow Guards to offer safe snow retention systems
The partnership is based on excellent team assistance from the snow retention company, along with fair pricing and quick turnaround times for product delivery. When installing or replacing roofing systems in Colorado and Wyoming, a dependable snow retention system is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. That’s the message roofer Kyle ...
Roofer profile: Kyle Shirley – Sol Vista Roofing
By Rocky Mountain Snow Guards. Learn which quality products this full-service commercial and residential roofing company chooses. Working for other roofing companies, Kyle Shirley and the roofers who created Sol Vista Roofing were disillusioned by the limited quality options and services available to customers in their area. So, they banded together with ...
2026 snow retention products outlook
Five key trends were identified for the snow retention industry. The leadership at Rocky Mountain Snow Guards, Inc. has identified five key trends moving into 2026 for the snow retention industry. Brian Cross, Operations Manager for the Colorado-based company, identifies the trends as: Trend #1 As solar panel installation increases on homes, ...
6 winning metal roofing snow retention projects
By Rocky Mountain Snow Guards. Check out the winners of the 2025 "Show Us Our Snow Guards" contest! Metal roofs dominated the “winner’s circle” in the 2025 “Show Us Our Snow Guards” Contest this year. There were eight total awards given out, and six of them were for snow retention systems on ...
Roofer profile: Spenser Fread – Battle Ridge Builders
By Rocky Mountain Snow Guards. This roofer shares about his first time working with Rocky Mountain Snow Guards. You could say that Spenser Fread was “strumming his way” into the building industry almost a decade ago. Prior to joining Battle Ridge Builders in Belgrade, Montana, Spenser was involved in another form ...
Winning snow retention project solves hotel’s avalanching snow problems
By Rocky Mountain Snow Guards. Learn how this contractor helped a hotel and won a prize along the way. It was almost too easy. According to Nick Piontek with On Point Contracting, he simply asked the hotel manager at WoodSpring® Suites Hotel in Littleton, Colorado if snow avalanching off the roof ...
“Cut up” roof on Colorado home named runner up winner in 2025 “Show Us Our Snow Guards” Contest
This is the second year in a row that Umbrella Roofing has won an award in the competition. Adding RG16 snow guards to the distinctive “cut up” roof belonging to Baker family in Arrowhead, Colorado, has earned Umbrella Roofing a Runner Up Prize in the residential category of the 2025 “Show ...
Remote Alaska project named runner up winner in 2025 “Show Us Our Snow Guards” contest
Using a snow retention system for the first time from Rocky Mountain Snow Guards was all it took to capture a runner up prize in the commercial category! Call it beginner’s luck. When Rock-N-Road Construction submitted an entry on a whim in the 2025 “Show Us Our Snow Guards” Contest, they ...
