Trying to beat the weather and not lose our snowshoe trails to the trees, we decided to tap yesterday pm and finished this am. All went well but it was still difficult on some steep sidehills. Was supriesed to have one tap dripping and a couple of moist ones. Put out 84 taps on 3/16 tubing. Plan is to use shurflo pumps on 6 runs. I built a new RO with 3 400 gpd filters which I'm anxious to try. Looks like next week it may our first draw. If any sap flows before that it will flush our hoses. We put new drops and spouts on last fall which made our task easier this spring.