Still going strong but now we have no choice...

Got up at 04:30 on Friday after working until after midnight, headed to the shack and fired up. Ran hard until I had to leave at 15:00 for a family commitment. Dad was going to run another few hours then we'd collect and finish on Sunday.
I got "the call" on Saturday night. He left 4"+ in the pan, loaded some wood, turned down the draft and went up to the house to grab a quick bite. 20 minutes later once he got close to the shack he said all he could smell was burn syrup. It boiled over and then burnt what stayed in the pan. Huge mess. Still cleaning up. We've left the pan unattended many many times. Always run into the house for breakfast and supper. Never more than 15-20 minutes. I guess the concentrate was a little hotter than he thought. Probably lost what would have been 20L of syrup.

Did a collect yesterday picked up over 400L. We now have more than 1000L in stock. It's keeping well in the shop, out of the light on the concrete floor. We added some sap ice we kept to keep it cool. We'll run through what we have this week then see what our plan is from there.

Our north slope trees have just turned on. Getting tons of crystal clear sap still.