Unfortunately, the glaciers are melting away from Glacier NP. Over the last 150 years, the number of large glaciers has declined from 80 to 32. The number of smaller glaciers went from 144 to 49.

Quality un-roasted green beans tend to be in the range of $6 to $8 a pound. On a light roast, about 15% of the weight is lost in roasting. $6 to $8 a pound un-roasted coffee turns into $6.90 to $9.20 a pound roasted. This doesn’t include cost of the equipment, wear and tear and electricity.

It seems like the going price of artisanal roasted coffee is $12 to $18 pound. IMO, is completely justifiable to charge based on their wholesale cost of goods and labor costs these days.

I also home roast 80% of my beans. I’ve been home roasting for over 25 years. I’m receiving 25 pounds from Sweet Marias today. I picked up 5 pounds each of the following:

-Congo Organic Kivu Kalehe

-Costa Rica Tarrazú Cerro La Cruz

-Java Pulp Natural Gambung Robusta

-Ethiopia Dry Process Mahamed Aba Nura

-Kenya Nyeri Kiaguthu Peaberry

I’m looking forward to playing around with blending with the Java Robusta

Stumptown are great roasters. I love to experiment with local roasters. I travel quite a bit and I try to pick up a pound from a local roaster wherever I go. I used be pretty smug in thinking that the top tier roasters in San Francisco would beat a small town roaster every time. My opinion has changed, I’ve been super impressed by a lot of smaller roaster.

It seems like we are both aware that lots of beans not labeled as espresso are great for it. I tend to go for light to medium roasts for both pour overs and espresso. I also prefer malty/chocolatey profile beans over the citrusy ones. That is not a hard rule but light roasted citrusy beans can be overwhelming in espresso

This is where I learned that elk live all over the United States

A community for National Parks

So many pots!

Great pictures! Ancestral Puebloans did amazing stuff. Items(parrots, cacao) from the Yucatan Peninsula have been found around Mesa Verde. Blows me away that a trade network was that large.

Check this 800+ year old mug out!

I haven’t visited these particular mounds but I have visited others. Here are a couple of pictures from Poverty Point National Monument and World Heritage Site.

The morning commute in Yellowstone was bumper to bumper bison that day

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Also, the evidence is very damning. This will be a hard case to win for Trump. Do you want to be the lawyer that lost the case that sent Trump to go to jail? I mean, I would love to be that lawyer but I’m not a lawyer so I don’t care about my reputation

Fuck ya!

The Jokic brothers tossing Malone is hilarious

Oh yeah, I also stop and take a picture at the entrance sign

I tend not to be a planner. I love to show up at park not knowing much about it. It has it’s downsides when a park has a reservation system. At the gate, I always make sure to get a park pamphlet to go into my collection. I’ll also ask for a hiking map/sheet. The next stop tends to be the visitor center. I make it a point to watch the movie if there is one in the visitor center. I normally will check my water bottle situation and fill up at the visitor center if I’m low. I love seeing animals so I’ll talk to a ranger and ask about wildlife sightings and any sights that I should see.