The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-231

"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, August 19, 2013

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Walk: 0.5 miles in 10 minutes, no elevation gain. Tortoise rating: 6.1. Weigh-in today: 242.4.

Footnote: Miles walked since June 28 ... 93.97.

Click here for eating today:

Calorie Goal: 2,370 Calories Consumed: 2,478 Calories Burned: 82 Net Calories: 2,396

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
The Daily Plate Generic Calorie	120.00	120	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Steel Cut Oats Organic	1.00	150	3g	0mg	0mg	26g	1g	4g	7g
Dannon Activia Yogurt - Blueberry	1.00	110	2g	5mg	65mg	19g	17g	0g	5g
Banana, large	0.30	36	0g	0mg	0mg	9g	5g	1g	0g
Domino's Pizza Thin Crust Sausage & Mushroom (14 Inch - Large)	2.00	430	26g	20mg	790mg	38g	2g	2g	18g
Garden Vegetable Salad	1.00	45	0g	0mg	47mg	5g	0g	0g	1g
low-fat cottage cheese	1.00	194	6g	23mg	746mg	8g	8g	0g	27g
Plain Baked Potato	1.00	140	0g	0mg	11mg	26g	3g	3g	4g
low-fat cottage cheese	1.00	194	6g	23mg	746mg	8g	8g	0g	27g
Cracker Barrel Lemon Pepper Grilled Rainbow Trout	1.00	163	9g	46mg	81mg	5g	1g	1g	17g
Cracker Barrel Mashed Potatoes	1.00	194	10g	0mg	0mg	10g	0g	0g	0g
Cracker Barrel Restaurant Green Beans	1.00	70	0g	12mg	14mg	16g	4g	7g	4g
Cb Carrot Cupcake With Frosting	1.00	222	7g	26mg	0mg	39g	0g	0g	2g
Nabisco Triscuit, Reduced Fat	2.00	240	6g	0mg	320mg	42g	0g	6g	6g
Cache Valley Part Skim Mozzarella String Cheese	2.00	140	8g	0mg	300mg	0g	0g	0g	12g
Campbell's V8 Original	1.00	30	0g	0mg	330mg	7g	4g	1g	1g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	10.0	-82.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,396	82g	155mg	3,450mg	259g	53g	25g	131g

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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 :-)

Monday, August 19, 2013

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