2010-03-24 / Sports & Outdoors
The sap’s a-boilin’
Katherine Mallett, Manager of the Sugarloaf Sugar Shack, stands over boiling tubs of sap in the Sugar Shack Saturday morning at Sugarloaf. Thousands of guests flocked to The Beach to visit the newly opened Sugar Shack this weekend to watch real Maine maple products being made and to sample Sugarloaf’s very own maple syrup. Sugar Shack staff distributed roughly 1,350 samples to eager visitors over the weekend, keeping the staff and the shack’s equipment busy. For the upcoming Maine Maple Sunday on March 28, Sugarloaf will team up with Gifford’s Ice Cream and hand out free samples of Gifford’s world famous vanilla ice cream (named “World’s Best” in 2007), topped with Sugarloaf’s own maple syrup. (Skye Chalmers Photography) 
