Easter Weekend
March 30th thru 31st
The sap was hardly running while we were there.
Inside the shack they have discovered that by covering the boiling sap they can increase the enthalpy of the system and get faster evaporation.  Thermodynamic engineering, keeping pancakes moist and sweetened among other things.
Jim & Neil were boiling sap all weekend.
The less said about the condition of the lane the better.
The lake level is up to -9.5 inches below the nail.
The ice depth was checked near the unexplained ruins or Jeff's fort.
The ice drill was almost up the the handle before the hole was finished.  24 inches of very solid ice.
The blades of the ice drill are still very sharp.  The ice depth would have been much more of a task to find without it.
The pier rescue operation went well. Jim had the honor of spuding the legs out and doing most of the work after Andy's attempt to use hand tools to saw the extra pipe section off and use the ice drill to free the legs left him to tired to go on.
Another mystery! The wooden tops of the other pier sections somehow detached from their supports and were found a short distance away.  Jim was seen in the area with a chainsaw.
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