The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-255

"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 12, 2013

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Another day limited to walking to the post office and the store, up the stairs at home. Hey this is the uberboring blog at the core, with the occasional picture to make it more fun. Not this week. 0.5 miles walked with 20 feet of stairs climbed in 12 minutes. (Total miles walked since 6/28: 115.63)

Click below for info on calories consumed and burned:

Cheerio!

Calorie Goal: 2,346 Calories Consumed: 2,061 Calories Burned: 86 Net Calories: 1,975

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal - Maple & Brown Sugar	1.00	160	3g	0mg	260mg	32g	9g	3g	4g
Quaker Quaker, Oatmeal, Instant	1.00	130	2g	0mg	165mg	27g	12g	3g	3g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	0.50	20	1g	0mg	0mg	3g	0g	2g	2g
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
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat	2.00	240	0g	0mg	700mg	48g	14g	6g	10g
Great Value Fat free Smoked Turkey Breast	2.00	50	0g	20mg	440mg	4g	2g	0g	10g
Tillamook Sliced Medium Cheedar Cheese	1.00	90	7g	20mg	125mg	0g	0g	0g	5g
Romaine Lettuce	2.00	10	0g	0mg	4mg	2g	0g	2g	0g
French's Yellow Mustard	1.00	0	0g	0mg	55mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Nabisco Triscuit, Reduced Fat	1.00	120	3g	0mg	160mg	21g	0g	3g	3g
Cache Valley Part Skim Mozzarella String Cheese	1.00	70	4g	0mg	150mg	0g	0g	0g	6g
Campbell's V8 Original	1.00	30	0g	0mg	330mg	7g	4g	1g	1g
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat	2.00	240	0g	0mg	700mg	48g	14g	6g	10g
Great Value Fat free Smoked Turkey Breast	2.00	50	0g	20mg	440mg	4g	2g	0g	10g
Tillamook Medium Cheddar Cheese Slices	1.00	90	7g	20mg	125mg	0g	0g	0g	5g
Romaine Lettuce	2.00	10	0g	0mg	4mg	2g	0g	2g	0g
French's Yellow Mustard	1.00	0	0g	0mg	55mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Plain Baked Potato	1.00	140	0g	0mg	11mg	26g	3g	3g	4g
Western Family Lowfat Cottage Cheese	1.50	135	3g	23mg	690mg	8g	5g	2g	18g
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Dreyer's Grand - Vanilla Bean	0.75	105	6g	19mg	26mg	11g	11g	4g	2g
Dreyer's Rich & Creamy Grand Ice Cream Real Strawberry	0.75	90	4g	15mg	23mg	12g	11g	0g	2g
Keebler Keebler Waffle Cones	1.00	50	1g	0mg	25mg	10g	4g	0g	0g

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

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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 :-)

Thursday, September 12, 2013

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