The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 159

"The Blog Almost Too Boring To Be The Most Boring Blog in America ... for Over 5 Years!"

until it got too many red cards from Wounded Duck and the Boredom Enforcement Committee ... now the tortoise's goal is to get to 10 red cards so he can get Big Dog to drive down and take a good long walk with the tortoise

P. S. This blog listens to its readers. We have the Benjamin Category Override for 5+ mile walks and now, it humbles Tortoise to say he has been named "Lou", by Doug Jr, in memory of Mr. Consistency himself, Lou Gehrig. Tortoise can hardly type the words to think he is in any way comparable to the noble Iron Horse. Thank you!

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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Day 77 walk was up through the pretty BYU Idaho campus to the LDS temple - 4.58km (2.85 miles) in 00:51:27. Climbed 56.1 m (184 feet - a category 5 climb). A joke for Miss Becca, 100 points to the house that first comments here on the Terreeeblay blog with the correct starting/stopping point for this walk ...

Series 2B totals 185.19 km (115.09 miles) in 39 hours 19 minutes, with 2065.2 m (6775 feet) climbed in 9 counties in 7 states, including today's new county: Madison County, Idaho!

Eating today:

	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Carl's Jr. Monster Breakfast Sandwich	1.00	731	47g	530mg	1,210mg	39g	5g	2g	37g
Carl's Jr. Hash Brown Nuggets	1.00	330	21g	0mg	470mg	32g	0g	3g	3g
Minute Maid Premium Pulp Free Orange Juice	1.00	110	0g	0mg	20mg	27g	24g	0g	2g
McDonald's Ca Mango Pineapple McCafe Smoothie (Small)	1.00	220	1g	5mg	40mg	49g	49g	2g	3g
McDonald's Chicken Mcnuggets (4 Piece)	3.00	510	30g	75mg	1,350mg	30g	0g	0g	30g
McDonald's Chicken Mcnuggets (4 Piece)	1.00	170	10g	25mg	450mg	10g	0g	0g	10g
Applebee's 7 Oz Sirloin Steak	1.00	330	34g	0mg	1,549mg	22g	0g	8g	36g
Potato, Baked, Flesh And Skin	1.00	278	0g	0mg	30mg	63g	4g	7g	7g
Daisy Sour Cream	1.00	60	5g	20mg	15mg	1g	1g	0g	1g
Butter	1.00	100	11g	30mg	95mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Broccoli	0.50	16	0g	0mg	15mg	3g	1g	1g	2g
Butternut Squash	0.50	20	0g	0mg	2mg	5g	1g	0g	1g
Applebee's Hot Artichoke And Spinach Dip	0.50	226	9g	0mg	775mg	37g	0g	11g	15g
Tortilla Chips	0.50	71	4g	0mg	75mg	9g	0g	1g	1g
Tillamook Marionberry Cobbler Ice Cream	3.00	510	27g	75mg	180mg	57g	33g	0g	9g
Fitness	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walk: 3.5 mph (17 min/mi)	49.0	-486.0
Totals:		3,196	199g	760mg	6,276mg	384g	118g	34g	156g

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Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) Segments Hiked

Total lifetime PCT miles hiked: 205.0 out of the 2,650 total.

From 1966 to 1969 segment Tortoise hiked the portion of the PCT shared by the John Muir Trail, covering PCT miles 767.0 to 942.5 (175.5 miles). (While hiking the full 211 miles of the Muir Trail from Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mt. Whitney)

Tortoise then embarked on a long career at a desk, interrupted momentarily for a day hike in 1988 up Mt. Baden-Powell as a Varsity Boy Scout coach with his team. That took him from PCT miles 374.0 to 377.9, roundtrip. (There was also a second trip from Onion Valley to Mt. Whitney with the Varsity Boy Scouts in 1989. He barely made it, crying with joy and appreciation when he did. That is a story all of its own).

He returned many years later with these walks. Please click on the date for a link to that day's blog post:

June 14, 2012, hiked PCT miles 565.0 to 566.6 (1.6 miles) on both sides of California Highway 58 at the Cameron Road exit.

October 20, 2012, hiked PCT miles 341 to 342 (1 miles) mostly on the east side of Interstate 15 but also under the storm runoff tunnel just south of the exit to California Highway 138 near Cajon Pass.

February 2013, continued in two segments to do miles 342 to 347 (5 miles).

August 13, 2013, hiked miles 374.2 to 376.6 roundtrip from Vincent Gap trailhead at milepost 74.7 on California highway 2.

February 17, 2015, hiked miles 452.9 to 450.4 roundtrip from Vasquez Rocks Picnic Area.

March 16, 2015, hiked miles 341.9 to 340.2 southbound from Cajon Pass Road, then returned. Partial redo of October 20, 2012 walk ... plus a little more.

April 3, 2015, hiked miles 1089.8 to 1091.9 roundtrip from Echo Summit trailhead to near Echo Lake.

May 12, 2016, hiked miles 206.8 to 204.3 southbound from the Snow Canyon Road gate at the bottom of Mt. San Jacinto, then returned.

August 17, 2016, hiked miles 209.5 to 206.8 southbound from the underpass at Interstate 10 Exit 110 to Snow Creek, then returned.

May 26, 2017, hiked miles 369.4 to 364.4 southbound from the Inspiration Point trailhead on California Highway 2, then returned.

The tortoise may eventually set some kind of record for the longest time to complete the PCT in microsegments. You never know, but we're already at 51 years and counting since his first segment from Onion Valley to Taboose Pass in July 1966 :-)

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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