Winter Term athletes took advantage of a rare off day (rain can't stop us, Mother Nature!) to pair up some dryland training with an awesome trip to the Cornell-Uihlein Maple Syrup Farm, just around the corner from the OTC. Mike Farrell (Husband of Winter Term Mathematics Professor Emeritus Andrea Farrell) gave us a fantastic tour of the facility, which is now in full production mode with warm temps a-plenty.
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| Listen up. Maple syrup is a big deal. |
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| Over 72 miles of vacuum pressured tubing connect the Maple and Birch trees behind the OTC. Who knew?! That sure doesn't suck... |
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| Tubing galore! The main vein. 100 years ago this forest was leveled to turn maple trees into charcoal. Today it has regrown... and it produces awesome syrup! |
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| Trees can be tapped every season. Yup! 40 gallons of sap to one gallon of syrup. Quite a ratio! |
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| U14 ladies try not to fall into the sap collection vats |
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| Where air is released from the vacuum lines, and sap is filtered pre-boiling. |
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| #Grade-A #dagoodstuff |
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| Samples. Yeah, they're all delicious. |
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| Noice. |
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| The evaporator! So awesome! |
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| #Fancy |
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| The sap boiled over! It was wild! Thankfully no persons (or pancakes) were harmed. A really sticky situation... |
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| Testing! This rocked. So fresh. |
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| The fruits of our labor... |
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| How sweet is this? |
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