The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-263

"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!

Friday, September 20, 2013

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Friday Night Lights in Hurricane

Decided to step up the workout tonight, so I parked my car on 600 North at the beginning of the trail to East Cinder Knoll. It is 0.34 miles and 289 feet of climbing to reach the top of the knoll (so we are talking a 16% incline). I then walked along the top a little ways to make it 1.10 miles round trip in 48:20. Tortoise rating headed up: 0.9. (Total miles walked since 6/28: 120.13)

Yes, I was slow. Carried the 31 pound pack, stopped and took something like 20 pictures to get the few I'm posting here, and I slipped and fell on the way down - even being careful and using my famous gaheep poles. I do like the poles now, but while learning to work with and assemble them, I was not a happy camper and now the name, sadly, is going to stick.

Please click below if you'd like info on calories consumed and burned, along with more pictures ... and the final score of the football game you're looking at in the picture above ...

Cheerio!

Calorie Goal: 2,310 Calories Consumed: 2,802 Calories Burned: 305 Net Calories: 2,497

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 Instant Oatmeal, Original	1.00	100	2g	0mg	75mg	19g	0g	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
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
The Daily Plate Generic Calorie	10.00	10	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
The Daily Plate Generic Calorie	120.00	120	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	0.50	20	1g	0mg	0mg	3g	0g	2g	2g
Marie Callendar's chicken pot pie	1.00	650	38g	35mg	1,000mg	59g	4g	4g	17g
Grilled Rib-Eye Steak	1.00	209	12g	75mg	142mg	0g	0g	0g	23g
Plain Baked Potato	1.00	140	0g	0mg	11mg	26g	3g	3g	4g
Sonny's Bar-B-Q Sweet Bbq Sauce	0.50	30	0g	0mg	230mg	7g	7g	0g	0g
Knudsen Lowfat Cottage Cheese 2%	2.00	200	5g	30mg	780mg	8g	8g	0g	28g
Fiber One Oats And Chocolate	1.00	140	4g	0mg	90mg	29g	10g	9g	2g
Vegetable Beef Soup (homemade)	3.00	450	15g	0mg	0mg	60g	0g	0g	0g
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat	1.00	120	0g	0mg	350mg	24g	7g	3g	5g
Hostess Mini Powdered Doughnuts	0.50	120	6g	10mg	120mg	16g	8g	0g	1g
1% Milk	1.00	102	2g	12mg	120mg	12g	13g	0g	8g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Treadmill - 10% incline @ 2 mph	33.0	-305.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,497	88g	167mg	3,254mg	350g	102g	33g	103g

I'm attempting to take a picture of myself
and show the trail slope I'm about to walk up

War wounds from my fall. I wasn't hurt in any other way.

Oh, yes, the game. Hurricane lost at home to Cedar 6-0, making us 1-4 overall for the season and 1-1 in region. I watched the last minute of the game ... Mike Butler and his broadcast companion Travis Brunstead (sp?) couldn't get off the air fast enough when it was over, they were so shocked. http://www.skalooza.com/utah-washington-hurricane/hurricane_high/event/101253/#.Uj0a98asiM4

Sorry to bring you this news, but figured you would be wanting to know when you saw my picture ...

2 comments:

RachelSeptember 21, 2013 at 8:40 AM
The war wounds!! Hope you are healing, and even now days later, I'm sad when Hurricane loses :(
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UnknownSeptember 21, 2013 at 1:49 PM
We can always make ourselves feel better by rooting for our beloved Cougars to beat Utah tonight!
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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 :-)