The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-254

"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!

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

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Newly formed Post Office Lake is growing this afternoon behind my office.

It is September 11. We must never forget.

Lots of rain today. Hard, steady rain. Smelled good!

Walked another 0.5 miles with 20 feet of stairs climbed in 12 minutes. (Total miles walked since 6/28: 115.13)

Please click below for more info on calories consumed and burned ... and another shot of our new lake.

Cheerio!

Calorie Goal: 2,346 Calories Consumed: 1,820 Calories Burned: 86 Net Calories: 1,734

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Quaker Instant Oatmeal Raisin, Date, And Walnut	1.00	140	3g	0mg	240mg	27g	12g	3g	3g
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal - Maple & Brown Sugar	1.00	160	3g	0mg	260mg	32g	9g	3g	4g
Banana, large	1.00	121	0g	0mg	1mg	31g	17g	4g	2g
Dannon - Activia Activia Light No Sugar Added Yogurt	1.00	60	0g	5mg	75mg	10g	7g	2g	4g
Kellogg's Fiber Plus Antioxidants Caramel Coconut Fudge	1.00	130	4g	0mg	100mg	26g	7g	9g	2g
Plain Baked Potato	1.00	140	0g	0mg	11mg	26g	3g	3g	4g
Sloppy Joes meat	1.00	209	8g	80mg	578mg	10g	10g	0g	23g
Homemade BBQ Baked Beans	1.00	133	1g	0mg	554mg	26g	7g	6g	7g
1% Milk	2.00	204	5g	24mg	240mg	24g	25g	0g	16g
Dreyer's Grand - Vanilla Bean	1.00	140	8g	25mg	35mg	15g	14g	5g	2g
Dreyer's Rich & Creamy Grand Ice Cream Real Strawberry	1.00	120	5g	20mg	30mg	16g	14g	0g	2g
Oreo Oreo Milk's Favorite Cookie	1.33	213	9g	0mg	213mg	33g	19g	1g	1g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	12.0	-86.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein

1 comment:

RachelSeptember 12, 2013 at 8:58 AM
Yeah for the rain, that's a lot, but always needed in that area. Glad deadline day is gone, hope you get to rest soon and breathe a little
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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 :-)