On the subject of backpacking...
 

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
news:zu%Hf.3343$Nq1.2337@dukeread11...
for a while now, i've been buying a "fair trade certified" 12 oz. bag of
whole bean roast by the organic coffee company, an outfit from san
leandro, california. costs about 7 bucks. i get it from a local upscale
grocery store. i like their espresso roast best, but the supplier here has
stopped carrying it, so i make do with the french roast. pretty good
stuff. i've bought the jamaican blue mountain once. had to order it
through an importer...5 of us combined funds to buy the minimum purchase
allowed at @ $125, then divided the beans. i was disappointed, though it
was still good. just not the delicious coffee i remember tasting during
my visits to jamaica.

i'm too lazy to buy green and do my own roasting, but that's probably the
method of insuring the best taste, eh?


Hmm, I don't know. I kind of remember reading once that roasting beans is
slightly technical, and that's where the flavor comes out. If you do it
wrong (which might be easy to do), you could ruin it pretty badly I think. I
prefer to let them who know what they are doing do the roasting, and I'll
just pay at the counter. If you try it, let us know how it goes..

--riverman

On the subject of backpacking...
 

"Mr. Opus McDopus" wrote in message
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"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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Bill,
once on a backpack trip with a few friends, I awoke to a loud buzzing
noise out in the middle of nowhere. I got out of my Bivy adjusted my
eyes only to find this guy shaving with a battery powered electric
shaver.
Now when I backpack I love to get as far away from society as possible.
-tom

Ok, now I'm comin' up to speed, on this back-country campin' stuff! You
and I need to get together Tom. I ain't much of a hiker--to fat and out
of shape--but I sure as hell won't be bringin' no battery powered shaver,
muchless a Gillett "Fusion!" Hell, the guyz at work ask why I only shave
one side of my face at a time.

Op --workin' the right-side this month--


I'm getting up there in age too, not exactly a spring chicken anymore as my
wife would say nearing our 25th anniv the end of March. You know you're
getting old when you don't recognize the guy in the mirror.
-tom