The sap runs this year have been OK but with the cooler temperatures and 15 cm of new snow earlier this week could this be the end of it all? Hopefully not. With some luck and the forecast of cooler nights and warmer days we should get one more boil done before we call this maple syrup season a wrap.
The next big event (for us anyways) is when the the ice leaves the lake. Since arriving at Foxwood in 2002 we have taken records of when we consider the ice officially gone. Although our records represent only a small snapshot of time - Tom Salmon settled the property in 1876 and the lake has had ice going in out for who knows how long - we find it interesting how consistent the dates are. Regardless of the year, the ice leaves the lake in front of us either on April 19 or 20....with maybe the last ice flow going on the 21st. We'll see what happens this year!
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