Mid-Wis Maple, Day 10



Busy day... We took a run out to Cadott to pick up some jugs...
Jug

...then went back into the woods, where we gathered what sap had run into the buckets we'd hung a couple of days ago.

Then Xavier laid in the fire...
Fire Up


...while the sap was draining from the storage tank into the cook pan.
Sap

Sap

A good fire had the sap steaming in no time.
Fire Up

At this point we're just sterilizing it, we let that fire go out, and will repeat the process until there's enough sap in the tank to keep a boil going and finish into syrup.
Cooker

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