The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-259

"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, September 16, 2013

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Walked 0.5 miles with 20 feet of stairs climbed in 10 minutes on another deadline tie day. Maybe it was even 21 feet ... (Total miles walked since 6/28: 118.53)

For more info on calories consumed and burned today, including all those mission tortilla chips with chili cheese dip to keep me awake at 11 pm, please click below ...

Cheerio!

Calorie Goal: 2,310 Calories Consumed: 3,184 Calories Burned: 80 Net Calories: 3,104

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Quaker - Maple & Brown Sugar	1.00	160	2g	0mg	270mg	33g	13g	3g	4g
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Original	1.00	100	2g	0mg	75mg	19g	0g	3g	4g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	0.50	20	1g	0mg	0mg	3g	0g	2g	2g
Dannon - Activia Activia Light No Sugar Added Yogurt	1.00	60	0g	5mg	75mg	10g	7g	2g	4g
Banana, Medium	1.00	105	0g	0mg	1mg	27g	14g	3g	1g
Wendy's Apple Pecan Chicken Salad (Wendy's)	1.00	340	18g	50mg	800mg	28g	22g	4g	19g
Wendy's Small Chili	1.00	220	7g	35mg	870mg	22g	6g	6g	18g
Wendy's Lemonade	1.00	190	0g	0mg	0mg	49g	46g	0g	0g
Wendy's Single Hamburger, plain	1.00	360	16g	65mg	580mg	31g	5g	2g	24g
Plain Baked Potato	1.00	140	0g	0mg	11mg	26g	3g	3g	4g
Wendy's Small Chili	1.00	220	7g	35mg	870mg	22g	6g	6g	18g
DQ Vanilla Cone, Medium	1.30	429	12g	39mg	208mg	69g	49g	0g	10g
Mission Mission Tortilla Triangles	3.00	420	21g	0mg	450mg	51g	0g	3g	6g
Hormel Chili with Beans	1.00	220	6g	25mg	770mg	28g	4g	6g	13g
Philadelphia Cream Cheese	2.00	200	18g	60mg	210mg	2g	2g	0g	4g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	10.0	-80.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		3,104	110g	314mg	5,190mg	419g	178g	43g	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, September 16, 2013

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