The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-290

"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, October 17, 2013

13-290

Walked to the post office and some other places close to the office without recording a map or picture today. I'm going with 0.5 miles walked in 10 minutes with 20 feet of stairs climbed.

Please click below to get info on calories consumed and burned today ...

Cheerio!

Calorie Goal: 2,298 Calories Consumed: 2,293 Calories Burned: 80 Net Calories: 2,213

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Mission Large Flour Tortilla	1.00	210	5g	0mg	630mg	36g	2g	1g	6g
Scrambled Egg	2.00	202	15g	429mg	342mg	3g	2g	0g	14g
Breakfast Potatoes	2.00	302	15g	15mg	333mg	40g	0g	4g	3g
Hormel Diced Ham	2.00	60	2g	30mg	560mg	1g	1g	0g	10g
Market Pantry (SuperTarget) Grated Cheddar Cheese	1.00	110	9g	30mg	170mg	1g	0g	0g	7g
Salsa	1.00	9	0g	0mg	198mg	2g	1g	1g	1g
Vegetable Beef Soup (homemade)	1.50	225	8g	0mg	0mg	30g	0g	0g	0g
Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners	1.00	190	1g	0mg	10mg	45g	11g	6g	5g
1% Milk	1.00	102	2g	12mg	120mg	12g	13g	0g	8g
Hershey's Reese's Mini Cup	2.00	84	5g	0mg	40mg	8g	6g	6g	0g
Hershey's Heath Bar Miniatures	0.33	76	5g	3mg	50mg	9g	9g	0g	0g
Whole Acorn Squash	0.50	86	0g	0mg	0mg	22g	0g	3g	2g
Ground Turkey (Cooked)	1.00	160	8g	80mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	22g
Broccoli, Cheese And Rice Casserole	1.00	197	4g	8mg	410mg	19g	0g	2g	7g
Breyers OREO Cookies and Cream	2.00	280	12g	30mg	180mg	42g	30g	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
		2,213	91g	638mg	3,042mg	270g	74g	23g	88g

Glasses of water: 2

Two 4 mg Chlortrimeton allergy pills and 2 excedrin today. I took my 20 mg crestor today but not my Nutrilite vitamins nor my prescribed 10 mg Zetia, 500 mg Metformin, 10 MEQ of Potassium Chloride.

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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, October 17, 2013

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