The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-268

"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 25, 2013

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Walked 0.5 miles with 20 feet of stairs climbed in 10 minutes, mostly back and forth to the church cultural hall setting up and taking down computer and projector equipment for my presentation this evening at the La Verkin Stake Preparedness Workshop.

For more info on calories consumed and burned today, please click below ...

Cheerio!

Calorie Goal: 2,310 Calories Consumed: 2,689 Calories Burned: 80 Net Calories: 2,609

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
The Daily Plate Generic Calorie	90.00	90	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
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
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Original	2.00	200	4g	0mg	150mg	38g	0g	6g	8g
Yoplait Blackberry Pomegranate Light	1.00	90	0g	0mg	80mg	16g	10g	0g	5g
Banana, large	0.50	61	0g	0mg	1mg	16g	8g	2g	1g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat	1.00	120	0g	0mg	350mg	24g	7g	3g	5g
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat	2.00	240	0g	0mg	700mg	48g	14g	6g	10g
Great Value Fat free Smoked Turkey Breast	3.00	75	0g	30mg	660mg	6g	3g	0g	15g
Tillamook Sliced Medium Cheddar Cheese	1.00	90	7g	20mg	125mg	0g	0g	0g	5g
Doritos Doritos - Individual Bag	1.00	140	7g	0mg	120mg	18g	1g	1g	2g
Knudsen Lowfat Cottage Cheese 2%	1.00	100	3g	15mg	390mg	4g	4g	0g	14g
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat	2.00	240	0g	0mg	700mg	48g	14g	6g	10g
Land O' Frost Hickory Smoked Turkey Breast & White Turkey	1.00	90	5g	25mg	510mg	3g	2g	0g	8g
Tillamook Sliced Medium Cheddar Cheese	1.00	90	7g	20mg	125mg	0g	0g	0g	5g
Homemade Beef Vegetable Soup	1.00	328	9g	45mg	117mg	40g	7g	9g	20g
Mission Mission Tortilla Triangles	1.00	140	7g	0mg	150mg	17g	0g	1g	2g
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Vanilla	2.00	300	20g	70mg	70mg	28g	22g	0g	4g
Dreyer's Rich & Creamy Grand Ice Cream Real Strawberry	1.00	120	5g	20mg	30mg	16g	14g	0g	2g
Keebler Keebler Waffle Cones	1.50	75	2g	0mg	38mg	15g	6g	0g	0g

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

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,609	76g	245mg	4,315mg	357g	123g	37g	119g

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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 :-)

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

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