The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-41

"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!

Sunday, June 10, 2012

3-41

Walked 0.85 miles in three segments totalling 20 minutes today, including 60 feet climbed. Chapter 3 totals are 38.67 miles walked in 15 hours 42 minutes, with 1,125 feet climbed, and 6 swims totalling 1,590 meters in 1 hour 32 minutes.

Here are the maps of each walk, starting with
the one back to Pamela and Phillip's house after listening to Dillon give his missionary farewell talk in church this afternoon:

Find more Walk in Woods Cross, UT

Here is the second segment, from security to gate A4 at the Salt Lake airport:

Find more Walk in Salt Lake City, UT

And the third segment, from the B gates to the A gates at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport:

Find more Walk in Phoenix, AZ

Here's my eating today. I tried to watch portion size at the big family spread. I guess "tried" is the key word here:

Calorie Goal: 2,515 Calories Consumed: 2,633 Calories Burned: 156 Net Calories: 2,477

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Turkey Jerky	1.00	80	1g	20mg	700mg	3g	3g	0g	15g
Milk 2%	2.00	260	6g	40mg	240mg	24g	24g	0g	18g
Life Life cereal	2.00	240	3g	0mg	320mg	50g	12g	4g	6g
glazed donut	1.00	229	13g	14mg	0mg	25g	0g	0g	3g
Pulled Pork	1.00	342	12g	118mg	735mg	13g	16g	2g	43g
Spanish Rice	1.00	252	6g	14mg	932mg	44g	0g	0g	5g
Black Beans	1.00	140	1g	0mg	0mg	25g	0g	6g	7g
Iceburg Lettuce	0.50	5	0g	0mg	4mg	1g	1g	1g	1g
Flour Tortilla	2.00	162	1g	0mg	418mg	30g	0g	4g	6g
Salsa, Homemade	2.00	28	0g	0mg	259mg	5g	3g	1g	1g
chocolate marshmallow cake	2.00	224	11g	0mg	198mg	28g	14g	1g	4g
California Pizza Kitchen ASAP Roasted Turkey Breast Sandwich	1.00	520	7g	50mg	1,986mg	71g	2g	4g	43g
Coca-Cola Sprite	1.00	96	0g	0mg	47mg	26g	26g	0g	0g
Dole Pineapple Juice	0.50	55	0g	0mg	0mg	13g	11g	0g	1g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	20.0	-156.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,477	60g	257mg	5,837mg	358g	111g	23g	152g

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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 :-)

Sunday, June 10, 2012

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