The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-292

"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!

Saturday, October 19, 2013

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View of the Pine Valley Mountains in the distance viewed just past
a back road crossing on the JEM trail 0.55 miles north of its trailhead.

Late afternoon walk, with a 30 pound pack, on the JEM trail beginning where it meets the Goulds Wash trail on Utah highway 59 at the 4300 foot summit about six miles south of where the highway begins in Hurricane. 3.21 miles round trip with 213 feet climbed in 1:13:04 hours. Sunny, clear, and calm ... temperature 74. Tortoise rating: 4.5. Felt good to take a little bit longer walk, climb some bigger hills, and breathe in the clear air.

The JEM trail is part of the 20 mile Hurricane Cliffs trail loop maintained by the U. S. Bureau of Land Managment (BLM).

After the walk I went to a church potluck barbeque this evening. I decided to bring something non-barbeque and non-salad, banking on the teenage kids wanting pizza and chicken wings as an alternative, so I brought one of each. It was a popular choice for that group. Please click below for a map and info on calories consumed and burned today ...

Cheerio!

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Calorie Goal: 2,298 Calories Consumed: 2,611 Calories Burned: 537 Net Calories: 2,074

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 Instant Oatmeal Original	1.00	100	2g	0mg	80mg	19g	0g	3g	4g
Activia Mixed Berry	1.00	110	2g	10mg	70mg	19g	17g	0g	5g
Banana, small	0.50	45	0g	0mg	1mg	12g	6g	1g	1g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g
Langers 100% Juice, Cranberry Plus	1.00	140	0g	0mg	15mg	35g	32g	0g	0g
Carr's Whole Wheat Crackers	1.50	120	5g	0mg	150mg	15g	5g	2g	2g
Trader Joe's Almond Butter	0.75	143	14g	0mg	0mg	5g	2g	2g	6g
Dutch Oven Potatoes	1.00	357	21g	73mg	737mg	23g	3g	3g	20g
Ramen noodle Cabbage Salad	1.00	182	13g	8mg	457mg	12g	2g	1g	4g
Peach Cobbler	1.00	241	9g	0mg	0mg	43g	0g	0g	2g
Blueberry Cobbler	1.00	253	6g	1mg	135mg	48g	0g	4g	5g
Mission Tortilla Chips	2.00	280	14g	0mg	300mg	34g	0g	2g	4g
Wild Garden Hummus Dip	2.00	70	4g	0mg	140mg	8g	2g	2g	4g
Tillamook Mountain Huckleberry Ice Cream	2.00	320	18g	50mg	110mg	34g	30g	0g	6g
Keebler Keebler Waffle Cones	1.00	50	1g	0mg	25mg	10g	4g	0g	0g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	53.0	-376.0
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	20.0	-161.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,074	113g	142mg	2,490mg	354g	115g	27g	69g

Glasses of water: 6

No 4 mg Chlortrimeton allergy pills and 2 excedrin today. I took my prescribed 10 mg Zetia, 500 mg Metformin, 10 MEQ of Potassium Chloride, but not my 20 mg crestor or Nutrilite vitamins today.

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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 :-)

Saturday, October 19, 2013

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