2010 Maple Season Underway

The 2010 maple season is underway. We have not collected any sap yet (things look good for later in the week) but the tapping is all done. I started on Friday (2/19) and tackled my most difficult sugar bush. It is very steep and rocky, sometimes I'm scrambling up and down these hillsides on my hands and knees all the while carrying a gas powered drill on a strap around my neck. The next week my dad and I spent Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the woods and finished up all 3300 taps just before another one of this winter's snow storms blew into the area. I have to say I am getting a bit anxious to get that first batch of sap in and boiled down.