White mt

[Homestead Maple]

We sit across from Colebrook. Had a good run this afternoon. Will be boiling again tomorrow and should be getting some more sap in during the day. We look good next four days then the Artic cold is back (hopefully for the last time). We have 4-5 feet of snow in the sugarbush.

Maybe it's the mountains and the elevation that my trees are at but I've noticed that you have sap runs when things here aren't even beginning to run. I have may be 2 -3 feet of snow in the woods but the snow was a lot deeper a week or so a go but the rain last Wednesday did help settle the snow a lot then. There's no sign of the snow melting back away from the base of the trees here but with 4 - 5 of snow up your way it doesn't seem to make any difference with your trees running. If your across from Colebrook, maybe it's your sugarbush that I can see across the way from Conrad Chapple's on Meridan Hill Rd?

[white mt]

From the looks of the forecast I predict the start of boiling and our season in my area to start the 28th of March give or take a day .we get up in the high 30s Maybe 40 deg on a good day say by 4pm than falls below freezing by 10 pm just not time to really get going

[PerryW]

Maybe it's the mountains and the elevation that my trees are at but I've noticed that you have sap runs when things here aren't even beginning to run. I have may be 2 -3 feet of snow in the woods but the snow was a lot deeper a week or so a go but the rain last Wednesday did help settle the snow a lot then. There's no sign of the snow melting back away from the base of the trees here but with 4 - 5 of snow up your way it doesn't seem to make any difference with your trees running. If your across from Colebrook, maybe it's your sugarbush that I can see across the way from Conrad Chapple's on Meridan Hill Rd?

I was thinking the same thing. The day the SJDOYAN posted that I wa in the woods all day tapping my bush in Littleton and there was only a few holes that were wet at all. At the end of the day, no sap had even made it out of the end of the mainline. Yesterday, I tapped another small bush in Lyman with 30 taps and there was not a single hole that was wet.

[sjdoyon]

You can see our sugarbush on the VT side of the river when sitting at the closed rest area on route 3 just a couple miles north of Colebrook. We have a spot light on the sugarhouse, easy to see on the mountain at night. We are running vacuum at 25" normally and find we are sometimes 5-7 degrees warmer at our elevation than down in town. We get sap runs on days when none of the sugarmakers around us do. We notice running high vacuum makes a big difference on days that are marginal.

Maybe it's the mountains and the elevation that my trees are at but I've noticed that you have sap runs when things here aren't even beginning to run. I have may be 2 -3 feet of snow in the woods but the snow was a lot deeper a week or so a go but the rain last Wednesday did help settle the snow a lot then. There's no sign of the snow melting back away from the base of the trees here but with 4 - 5 of snow up your way it doesn't seem to make any difference with your trees running. If your across from Colebrook, maybe it's your sugarbush that I can see across the way from Conrad Chapple's on Meridan Hill Rd?

[white mt]

We'll still waiting for the season to start at this rate we are looking at a repeat of the two week season of 2009 and for the opposite reason cold

[PerryW]

it's always better waiting through a cold spell than a warm spell. at least the trees won't bud.

[white mt]

That's true perry cold is better my hope is it could loosen up some tomorrow

[Russell Lampron]

With what I've got for overnight lows in the 10 day forecast it looks like you guys should be getting some good freeze thaw cycles up there. I hope you do. Somebody's got to have a good season this year.

[white mt]

Had my first boil of the year today . Well at least it wasn't April .felt good to have a little to show finely for a tone of work we must love this if we did not know one would do it

[PerryW]

probably gonna have enough sap tomorrow for my first gather of the season.