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    1,000 taps in the last two days. Dropped my phone in the woods yesterday, luckily found it today. Forced off the mountain by whiteout this afternoon. Sap was flowing from smaller trees.

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    Looking foreword to your up dates. Lets hope for a great season.
    Brian Ryther
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    10,000 taps
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    I will drink to that Brian!
    FIRST GENERATION SUGARMAKER
    First boil 2/22/2012! Went Pefect!
    3,500' of laterals
    1,000' of mainline
    2012 - 105 taps on gravity, 12 sap sacks.
    2013 - 175 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks = 200 taps for 2013! Second year.
    2014 - 250 taps on gravity, 25 on sacks
    Tapped on February 16, 2014
    2015 - adding vac sap puller no more gravity for me!
    275 gallon holding tank for 2014
    20'x30' Sugarhouse

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    Another 1,000 taps in. Snowshoes will be required on the mountain after tomorrow.

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    Back to tapping yesterday. 3' snow with 5' drifts makes for slow going. Back to it tomorrow.

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    Great to see you back at it. Looks like a late start for everyone this year. Hope you are doing great and still cancer free!
    Brandon

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    Still healthy Brandon. Spent today digging out tanks and tapping some more. A couple small trees were dripping on the sunny side. More snow for tomorrow, then maybe some sap this weekend.

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    3 bushes with vacuum going today and upper bush gravity till some snow melts. I may be boiling this weekend.

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    good luck Van

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    Tough day today. Mainlines frozen solid under 3 ft of snow, deer walking up to the tubing biting it in two and walking away the way they came, and squirrels on an all sap diet. Oh well, that's sugaring. Back to it tomorrow. Some sap today but the rain slowed it down.

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