Sugar Season

[Ripitz]

Just when ski seasons gets real good it’s time to start thinking sugar. I wish I could choose between the two. This year though I’m thinking of just skiing. Anyone out there tappin Maples this year? What size pan? How many taps? Do you have some sugar shack tales? I need some inspiration if I’m gonna pull this off. The deep snowpack and cold weather should make for a good flow. This last storm buried my shack. Not sure if I want to shovel it out and tramp out the bush.

Maybe when I get back from skiing.

 

[Campgottagopee]

No sugaring for me. When I lived in VT, during the summer, I worked for a sugar shack cutting firewood. It was a great job. I got paid in cash and weed. Ahhhh the good ole days.

 

[Campgottagopee]

Went over to #14's sugar shack today. Drank a bunch of beer and whiskey.

 

[Harvey]

So cool.

 

[Tjf1967]

Went over to #14's sugar shack today. Drank a bunch of beer and whiskey. View attachment 8656

Did you bring maple walnut cream?
I helped a guy sugar a couple of times. It's really boring. He was happy to have company. Once you empty the pales into the reservoir nothing else to do but drink beer and tend to the fire.
The sugarer is always happy to have company.

 

[wonderpony]

Went over to #14's sugar shack today. Drank a bunch of beer and whiskey. View attachment 8656

It looks like it must smell so good in there!!!!

 

[XTski]

That must be cool to do, just outside of Windham is a golf course that goes like half way up a mountain along side in the woods are the network of pvc ( I believe) hoses attached to trees that run all throughout the place, that course has an old barn for the club house that used to be a stage coach stop back in the day

 

[Ripitz]

My buddy just set some taps on his UltraVector BCs

 

[Campgottagopee]

Did you bring maple walnut cream?
I helped a guy sugar a couple of times. It's really boring. He was happy to have company. Once you empty the pales into the reservoir nothing else to do but drink beer and tend to the fire.
The sugarer is always happy to have company.

We don't even have to empty pales anymore. About 3 years ago he went to all lines. We sit there and party, toss a couple chunks of wood on the fire from time to time.

 

[jamesdeluxe]

I know this (sugar shack tourism rather than DIY) goes against the spirit of the thread, but I'm surprised that ski areas in the northeast U.S. don't put a shack right under a lift like at Mont Blanc, Quebec. It leaves people with a warm and fuzzy feeling and is a nice revenue generator for the mountain.