The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 208

"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!

Friday, September 16, 2011

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Starting point: A park one block northeast of the Church Office Building. Never knew the park was there, just discovered it today!

Day 124 - I walked 4.91 km (3.05 miles), with 102.1 m (335 feet) climbed, in 01:00:43. Tortoise rating of the uphill half of this walk was 3.6; HumanaFit rated this a category 4 climb. I have a new respect for category 4 climbs, and especially for everything above that. It doesn't look like much on TV when you watch the Tour De France, but try walking up one! I was unexpectedly pummeled with rain on this walk, but was rewarded with some really pretty scenery in the middle of a major city. A real treat!

Series 2B totals 344.19 km (213.41 miles) in 71 hours 21 minutes, with 3672.8 m (12,049 feet) climbed in 12 counties in 9 states.

Please click here for a map, more pictures, and details of calories consumed and burned today:

Cheerio!

Walking through a pretty, wooded neighborhood on the way to Memory Park

This totally made me think of Jacob. It started raining. Hard. Try to imagine a red MG convertible with a bride and groom posing for their pictures in the park. You never know what fun surprises you'll find on a Terreeeblay walk!

After walking through Memory Park I climbed to the top of the Avenues. Here's a view looking down on the state capitol when the rain let up just a little. Not easy to do in Salt Lake, that building sits on a hill above just about everything.

Night is fast approaching as I'm now about halfway through the Avenues. This is a street of houses that dead ends on the hill above Memory Park. I liked how it looks like the street runs into the Capitol Dome but doesn't.

Calorie Goal: 2,438 Calories Consumed: 2,559 Calories Burned: 511 Net Calories: 2,048

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Quaker Oatmeal	1.50	240	3g	0mg	405mg	50g	20g	5g	6g
Strawberry Yogurt	0.30	28	1g	3mg	15mg	5g	4g	1g	1g
Oranges	0.50	43	0g	0mg	0mg	11g	8g	2g	1g
Basil Chicken Breast	1.00	187	7g	0mg	388mg	7g	0g	1g	23g
Green Giant Green Beans & Carrots	1.00	30	0g	0mg	1mg	6g	3g	2g	1g
Simple Dinner Salad	1.00	185	15g	0mg	0mg	12g	0g	0g	0g
Cake, Carrot	1.00	411	12g	51mg	519mg	73g	0g	0g	4g
Fat Boy Ice Cream Sandwich	1.00	240	10g	20mg	160mg	34g	20g	0g	4g
Beef Jerky	1.00	130	4g	50mg	880mg	9g	8g	0g	16g
Jamba Juice Bright Eyed & Blueberry	1.00	220	1g	5mg	70mg	43g	38g	2g	11g
Filet Mignon	1.00	350	16g	112mg	96mg	0g	0g	0g	49g
Asparagus	1.00	27	0g	0mg	3mg	5g	3g	3g	3g
Homemade Mashed Potatoes	0.70	120	5g	1mg	212mg	17g	0g	0g	0g
Simple Dinner Salad	1.00	185	15g	0mg	0mg	12g	0g	0g	0g
Egg Custard	1.00	164	6g	223mg	161mg	13g	9g	0g	12g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	60.0	-511.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,048	94g	465mg	2,910mg	296g	112g	15g	131g

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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 :-)

Friday, September 16, 2011

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