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| ICE ROAD ADVISORY |
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| PROPANE TRUCK TOO HEAVY FOR TH ICE ROAD |
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| COLLECTING SAP FROM COURTHOUSE SUGAR MAPLE TREES |
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| CLOSEUP OF SAP COLLECTION BAG AND SPILE |
Saturday, 9:00 AM. 17 degrees F, wind NW, light with stronger gusts. It is party cloudy with lots of blue sky. The humidity is down, at 66%, and the barometer is up, now at 30.19". We had a dusting of snow last night, and our morning walk was a bit nippy.
The Ice Road is now closed to all but local traffic. This is an advisory only and is not enforced in any way, and is meant to keep the road useable by residents for as long as possible. The unofficial projection is that it will be open perhaps another week. The major portions of the road have very deep ice, but the approaches to land on both ends are becoming noticeably soft and wet. The Ice Caves visitation will probably not last much longer either, although I suspect this weekend will be another mob scene. I have heard that the local EMTs have been making an average of two dozen emergency runs on weekends, mostly falls and exposure.
The propane supplier on the Island is running out of propane and a tanker truck was at the Bayfield dock today, too heavy to cross the ice. The last I saw, it was waiting to transfer the propane to smaller trucks that can safely cross the ice.
Someone has tapped the large old maple trees at Bayfied's Old Courthouse (now Park Service headquarters) to collect sap for making maple syrup. I assume it is a school project. The bags were still empty when I took the photos, indicating that sap is not as yet flowing. The bag system looks to me to be clean, neat and efficient. As long as taping is properly done and the spiles (sap spigots) are removed at the end of the season no harm is done to the tree.
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