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.
