The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-78

"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!

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

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Memo to folks planning walking trails in their town ... Dothan, Houston County, Alabama has figured out how to do a really nice one, as these pictures help illustrate:

The full trail is 3.0 miles for cycling and 3.3 miles for walking. I did 1.58 miles, with 23 feet climbed, in 32 minutes. Tortoise rating: 6.8. Chapter 3 totals are now 78.94 miles walked in 31 hours 9 minutes, with 4,537 feet climbed, and 11 swims totalling 4,240 meters in 4 hour 34 minutes. Here's a map:

Find more Walk in Dothan, AL

Eating, with net calories today after deducting exercise:

Calorie Goal: 2,458 Calories Consumed: 2,505 Calories Burned: 266 Net Calories: 2,239

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Arby's Arby's Large Roast Beef Sandwich	1.00	590	25g	100mg	1,860mg	45g	7g	3g	42g
McDonald's Honey Mustard Snack Wrap With Grilled Chicken	1.00	260	9g	45mg	800mg	27g	4g	1g	18g
McDonalds Mango Pineapple Smoothie (Medium)	1.00	270	2g	5mg	50mg	61g	60g	2g	3g
Sonny's Bar-B-Q Pulled Pork	0.33	246	17g	40mg	185mg	1g	0g	0g	23g
Sonny's Bar-B-Q Sliced Pork	0.33	147	10g	46mg	52mg	0g	0g	0g	15g
Sonny's Bar-B-Q Sweet And Smokey Ribs	0.33	450	37g	74mg	310mg	2g	1g	0g	26g
Macaroni And Cheese Cg	1.00	350	11g	32mg	0mg	42g	0g	2g	18g
Onion Rings	0.50	88	1g	0mg	0mg	10g	0g	0g	0g
Corn Bread Homemade	0.70	105	3g	7mg	0mg	16g	0g	1g	3g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	31.0	-266.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,239	114g	348mg	3,257mg	204g	72g	10g	147g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/#ixzz217KVDTky

Here's some more pictures of the day ...

Florida has signs at 10, 9, 4, 2, 1, 0.5 miles to go and then the border. Fun!

Arrived at the Ragozzines new home in time to help unload the moving truck!

Dinner at Sonny's - great barbeque. Didn't eat it all, but it sure was good!

Today's last word ... while reading Alma 31and Micah 1, I was reminded that teaching the word of God is the most effective means of change available to us. It's really true!

"And now, as the ^apreaching of the ^bword had a great tendency to^clead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them—therefore Alma thought it was expedient that they should try the virtue of the word of God" Alma 31:5

Cheerio!

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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 :-)

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

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