It's been a season for the books here too! It is the second best out of the last 5 as far as syrup production is concerned. The off season improvements worked and things haven't broken down as much as in the past. I'm at 176.5 gallons of syrup produced and just pumped up 525 gallons of sap to RO and boil tomorrow. Wish I had more sugar maples to get my syrup per tap ratio up but I tap what I've got and those are reds. I had a frozen line to my permeate tank on the Saturday of maple weekend. A simple fix and no sap lost. I had one releaser malfunction early in the season and my moisture trap did what it was supposed to so no sap got into the vacuum line to the pump. Gotta love it when things work out like that. I wasn't so lucky last year and sap was sucked 1500' up the vacuum line and into the pump. It was almost impossible to get all of the sap out of the line and I wouldn't have any vacuum to the woods when it froze. There are many that wouldn't agree with you because they have seen enough snow for one year but yes it would help extend the season. Do you know who is tapping the trees at Levi Ladds place at the corner of Ridge Rd? I don't think he's getting much sap with all of the sags in the tubing and as loose as it is going into the barrel.