The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-248

"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, September 5, 2013

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Two walks today: First was 0.52 miles in 12 minutes with no climbing to meet Willyne and Doug Jr for lunch at Wendy's. Great company, and the walk made the food taste better :-) Then I made a quick trip to St. George to run two errands after the office closed at 5. After the errands, I headed up to do a new section of the Bluff Street trail, parking the car at 4200 North (last left turn before the Ledges exit on State Road 18) and walking down to highway milepost 6, then retracing my steps to the car. On this walk, I carried my 31 pound pack that I keep in the back of my car for opportunities just like this ... for this tortoise, it was a solid workout.

This walk was 3.36 miles with 402 feet climbed in 1:10:59 hours total elapsed time (including 52 seconds of picture taking breaks). Temperature: 92. Tortoise rating for the first half headed downhill: 6.0. Tortoise rating headed back up: 3.7. Total walked since 6/28: 112.63 miles.

Click here for more pictures and info on calories consumed and burned today:

Pretty rocks along the way

Cool rainbow!

An attempt to show the steep section of the path

View northbound as I end my walk

Calorie Goal: 2,357 Calories Consumed: 1,645 Calories Burned: 668 Net Calories: 977

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Western Family Oatmeal Old Fashioned	1.50	225	4g	0mg	0mg	41g	0g	6g	8g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g
Dannon - Activia Activia Light No Sugar Added Yogurt	1.00	60	0g	5mg	75mg	10g	7g	2g	4g
Banana, Medium	0.50	53	0g	0mg	1mg	13g	7g	2g	1g
Wendy's Apple Pecan Chicken Salad (Wendy's)	1.00	340	18g	50mg	800mg	28g	22g	4g	19g
Baked Potato	1.00	161	0g	0mg	17mg	37g	2g	4g	4g
Wendy's Chili, Small size	1.00	220	6g	35mg	780mg	23g	6g	5g	17g
Kellogg's Fiber Plus Antioxidants Caramel Coconut Fudge	1.00	130	4g	0mg	100mg	26g	7g	9g	2g
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Homemade Chicken and Rice	2.00	286	2g	102mg	651mg	20g	1g	0g	43g
Campbell's V8 Original	1.00	30	0g	0mg	330mg	7g	4g	1g	1g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	12.0	-87.0
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	71.0	-581.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		977	35g	192mg	2,753mg	239g	76g	36g	101g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/#ixzz2e54NLxPu

Water today: 11 glasses. (More than usual, thanks to the uphill walk with pack)

1 comment:

RachelSeptember 7, 2013 at 4:08 PM
This trail looks so righteous, and I love that you just have a backpack in your car for opportunities like this :)
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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 :-)