Tapped in Westfield

[KiO]

I usually shoot for the week of school vacation, or the week after depending on sports for the kids and plans for the vacation week. I have some new trees to tap this year and created a vacuum filter so eager for the season. Have a great season!

Mark

[bigschuss]

Welcome to 2025 Everyone.

Aiming to be ready to go the first weekend in Feb and going back to 50 taps this season. Long term forecast was showing an ice box through the 20th but now says things could open up sooner so now our watch begins. Hope everyone had a great holiday season and an even better sugarin season coming up.

Over here in Savoy at 2,000' elevation I am always a full month behind you guys. But looking forward to a great season.

The trails to my sugarbush run through a spruce/fir swamp, and when I don't have adequate snowpack my trails become unusable. Last year the snow was gone 3 weeks into the season and we had to shut down early.

We had a 3 acre hemlock/spruce/fir stand logged Last winter and over the summer I spent a lot of time cutting to length and hauling all of the "rat tails" to the wet areas on my trails and laying down hundreds of feet of corduroy. I probably moved 200 8' poles. So I will now be able to navigate out to the sugarbush without tearing up the trails if the snow melts. That's my one big improvement for 2025.

Looking forward to hearing about everybody's season.