The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-116

"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, August 24, 2012

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Nice view of the coast near sunset at about 1.5 miles up Moro Ridge in Crystal Cove State Park

Today's walk was 4.56 miles with 686 feet climbed in 1 hour 27 minutes. It was a HumanaFit category 3 climb (tortoise rating: 3.3), my first since August 18. This bring my chapter 3 totals to 126.90 miles walked in 49 hours 44 minutes, with 8,465 feet climbed, and 14 swims totalling 4,640 meters in 4 hour 57 minutes. The total of my five HumanaFit category 3 walks is 16.86 miles with 2,845 feet climbed in 7 hours 3 minutes.

Here's a two minute aerial view video, a map, and more ...

Find more Walk in Laguna Beach, CA

Looking south over Laguna Beach

A dramatic sunset on a cloudy day as the sun drops below the cloud layer just before dropping below the horizon

These signs are at every trail junction. This one is at the highest point I reached, 2.3 miles into the walk

Pretty purple flowers against the backdrop of the sunset

Eating, with net calories today after deducting exercise:

Calorie Goal: 2391Calories Consumed: 2378Calories Burned: 724Net Calories: 1654

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Steel Cut Oats Organic	1.00	150	3g	0mg	0mg	26g	1g	4g	7g
Sun-Maid Raisins	1.00	130	0g	0mg	10mg	31g	29g	2g	1g
Publix Brown Sugar	2.00	70	0g	0mg	10mg	18g	0g	0g	0g
whole milk	0.50	75	4g	18mg	60mg	6g	6g	0g	4g
Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice	1.50	165	0g	0mg	0mg	39g	32g	0g	3g
Turkey Jerky	1.00	80	1g	20mg	700mg	3g	3g	0g	15g
Pizza Hut Medium Thin Crust Pepperoni, Green Pepper, Onion	2.50	475	18g	50mg	1,325mg	55g	0g	3g	20g
Wahoo's Fish Taco Wahoo's Flame Grilled Fish Bowl	1.00	928	22g	138mg	1,668mg	126g	0g	17g	54g
Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt	9.00	225	0g	0mg	315mg	54g	45g	0g	9g
Turkey Jerky	1.00	80	1g	20mg	700mg	3g	3g	0g	15g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	87.0	-724.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,654	47g	246mg	4,788mg	361g	118g	26g	128g

I took my vitamins, crestor, and omega 3 fish oil. No Youngevity mineral supplements today. I drank 8 glasses of water today.

Today's last word ...

From reading Zechariah 3 and Helaman 2,

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If thou wilt ^awalk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my ^bcharge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among ^cthese that stand by. -- Zechariah 3:7

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 :-)

Friday, August 24, 2012

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