The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-250

"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!

Saturday, September 7, 2013

13-250

No walk today, pool play instead and a little swimming. Fun change of pace.

Please click here if you'd like info on calories consumed and burned today ...

Cheerio!

Calorie Goal: 2,357 Calories Consumed: 2,239 Calories Burned: 146 Net Calories: 2,093

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	2.00	300	5g	0mg	0mg	54g	0g	8g	10g
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
barbeque pork spare ribs	2.00	516	18g	100mg	2,363mg	50g	38g	3g	49g
Homemade Southern Potato Salad	1.00	167	4g	147mg	424mg	25g	2g	2g	7g
Homemade BBQ Baked Beans	1.50	200	1g	0mg	831mg	39g	11g	9g	10g
Pillsbury Crescent Rolls Original	2.00	200	12g	0mg	440mg	22g	6g	0g	2g
Homemade Key Lime Pie	1.00	280	8g	80mg	218mg	44g	36g	1g	6g
Country Time Lemonade (12oz Can)	1.00	140	0g	0mg	105mg	35g	35g	0g	0g
Post Selects Great Grains - Raisin Dates & Pecan	1.00	210	5g	0mg	130mg	40g	14g	4g	4g
1% Milk	0.75	77	2g	9mg	90mg	9g	10g	0g	6g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Swimming - treading water, moderate	20.0	-146.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,093	56g	341mg	4,675mg	348g	168g	33g	101g

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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 :-)

Saturday, September 7, 2013

13-250

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