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| Easter Weekend April 9th through 11th |
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| Friday afternoon, when we arrived, the air was "crisp" but the sun was warm and the snow was, for the most part, gone. |
| Sap was being boiled down the entire weekend. |
| While walking do the lane to the sugarbush, we saw some winter damage to trees and property. This one broke the right way and no cabin was damaged. |
| The tapping fields can be best summed up as brown with white buckets. |
| If you look at the forest floor closely ferns and trillums are starting to emerge. |
| It was a little cool on Friday and Saturday but the sap continued to run. From the 301 tapped trees they obtained over 200 gallons of sap each day. |
| Daylight savings time has pushed the dark of night back to about 8:30 PM. |
| On Saturday we measured the ice depth. The ice close to shore was not strong enough to support a man so I donned "2X6 shoes" to spread the load and got past the thin ice to the better stuff. |
| The ice was 13 inches deep. The top 3 to 4 inches is pretty rotten, but the stuff below that is good.. |
| After webcams were fixed and other chores were completed we hiked the land near Meg's Meadow until almost sunset. |
| Sunday morning held a nasty suprise: snow. Not much, but enough to make the cold air seem more chilly. |
| The sun was well hidden when we left. We'll be back next weekend. |
| On the way home, we saw a house on the west side of 32 in Carter that was crushed by snow. With all the snow this winter I thought that the lake level would rise quite a bit but all we got is a half inch from last fall. |