The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-87

"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 26, 2012

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The Owl Patrol totem. We made 12 of these. Willyne and the Eagle Patrol made many, many more of theirs. The initials are those of the 4 patrol members. W2-591-12-5 is our course number assigned by national ... W2 is area 2 of the Western Region, 591 is Utah National Park Council's number, 12 is the year, and it is the 5th Wood Badge held by our council in 2012. I know, more than you wanted to know ... but this IS the terreeeblay blog after all!

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 18th category 5 climb, and the sixth day in a row with one. Totals of my category 5 climbs is 27.04 miles with 2,320 feet climbed in 10 hours 2 minutes. Chapter 3 totals are now 87.44 miles walked in 34 hours 47 minutes, with 5,090 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: 2,120 Calories Burned: 152 Net Calories: 1,968

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Flour Tortilla	1.00	81	1g	0mg	209mg	15g	0g	2g	3g
Scrambled Eggs	1.50	105	7g	360mg	105mg	1g	0g	0g	11g
Hash Brown Potatoes	2.00	204	4g	0mg	46mg	38g	0g	4g	0g
Grated Cheddar Cheese	2.00	220	18g	0mg	360mg	2g	0g	0g	14g
Quaker Instant Oatmeal Packet	2.00	200	4g	0mg	160mg	38g	0g	6g	8g
Yoplait Harvest Peach Yogurt	1.00	170	2g	10mg	85mg	33g	26g	0g	5g
Taco Salad	2.00	580	26g	10mg	1,770mg	53g	0g	0g	35g
Spaghetti and Meat sauce	2.00	560	7g	30mg	1,100mg	98g	18g	8g	28g

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

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,968	68g	410mg	3,835mg	278g	44g	20g	103g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/DougBeecherSr/#ixzz22pQY97mL

Today's last word ...

"Now, as my mind caught hold upon this thought, I cried within my heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, ^ahave mercy on me, who am^bin the ^cgall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting ^dchains of ^edeath.

"And now, behold, when I thought this, I could remember my^apains ^bno more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more." -- Alma 36:18-19

Cheerio!

2 comments:

Doug JrAugust 7, 2012 at 10:15 PM
How did their breakfast burritos stack up to yours?
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UnknownAugust 7, 2012 at 11:03 PM
Mine are better ... but then I'm biased :-)

There food comes from Nicholas in Salt Lake. A little tastier than Sysco, but still definitely mass produced. And no mango salsa!
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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 :-)