The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-84

"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!

Monday, July 23, 2012

3-84

8 am Monday morning. We are ready to walk hand in hand into the world
of Wood Badge ... with no idea where it would take us!

Each day of this Wood Badge camp, I walked at least as far and climbed as much as I did on Saturday, July 21, so I will count 0.79 miles, climbing 85 feet, in 20 minutes at Tifie Scout Camp in the mountains a few miles east of Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah. It was a HumanaFit category 5 climb. It was my 15th category 5 climb, and the third day in a row with one. Totals of my category 5 climbs is 24.67 miles with 2065 feet climbed in 9 hours 2 minutes. Chapter 3 totals are now 85.07 miles walked in 33 hours 47 minutes, with 4,835 feet climbed, and 11 swims totalling 4,240 meters in 4 hour 34 minutes.

Eating, with net calories today after deducting exercise:

Calorie Goal: 2,458 Calories Consumed: 1,972 Calories Burned: 152 Net Calories: 1,820

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
French Toast (1 slice)	1.00	260	8g	202mg	460mg	36g	0g	0g	11g
Scrambled Eggs	1.00	70	5g	240mg	70mg	1g	0g	0g	7g
Quaker Apples And Cinnamon Oatmeal	1.00	128	2g	0mg	168mg	27g	12g	3g	2g
K Orange Juice	1.00	100	0g	0mg	5mg	24g	20g	0g	1g
Banana, medium	0.50	53	0g	0mg	1mg	14g	7g	2g	1g
Hawaiian Haystacks	1.00	328	11g	12mg	467mg	16g	2g	4g	13g
Hunt's Snack Pack Chocolate Pudding	1.00	120	4g	0mg	135mg	22g	16g	1g	2g
Beef Jerky	1.00	130	4g	50mg	880mg	9g	8g	0g	16g
Stouffer's Lasagna With Meat Sauce	1.00	260	9g	30mg	700mg	28g	5g	4g	17g
Small Dinner Salad	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	3g	2g	0g	0g
Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing	1.00	140	14g	10mg	260mg	2g	1g	0g	1g
Brownie	1.00	243	10g	10mg	153mg	39g	0g	0g	3g
Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats Original	1.00	90	3g	0mg	105mg	17g	8g	0g	1g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	20.0	-152.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,820	68g	554mg	3,404mg	237g	82g	13g	75g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/DougBeecherSr/#ixzz22pPvKQle

Today's last word ...

"And he breathed out many threatenings against them. And now the people of Ammon did not fear their words; therefore they did not cast them out, but they did receive all the poor of the Zoramites that came over unto them; and they did ^anourish them, and did clothe them, and did give unto them lands for their inheritance; and they did administer unto them according to their wants." -- Alma 35:9

Cheerio!

2 comments:

UnknownAugust 7, 2012 at 12:51 PM
You and mom are incredible for accomplishing the feat of Woodbadge! Definitely another testament to the wonderful examples you both are to me and all around you...you have much to be proud of!

Thanks as always for taking the time to document and record your wonderful travels and journeys, and continued focus on the tortoise's approach to health and life! May it ever be long and vibrant!!
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UnknownAugust 7, 2012 at 9:32 PM
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!

The tortoise's heart is full :-)
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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 :-)