The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-316

"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!

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

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A few of the houses just built in the new Ivy Wood subdivision near the tortoise's office

Snuck in a short walk after work and before evening meetings ... 1.12 miles with 56 feet climbed in 21:35 minutes. Cloudy, no wind, 66 degrees. Better enjoy it, guess this is the last warm day before a steady decline over the next week. It is November after all. Tortoise rating: 5.1 on the uphill half of the walk.

Please click below to continue reading, including a map, another picture, and the infamous details of calories consumed and burned today. Speaking of that, there was a weigh-in this morning at 233.1. I guess the last one was too good to be true, but the general direction is still the one I'm looking for: very gradually down.

Cheerio!

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Surprise, surprise. Tortoise found a new trail in the middle of the new neighborhood!
Of course, he had to check it out, even if it is only 0.15 miles long!

Calorie Goal: 2,291 Calories Consumed: 2,151 Calories Burned: 173 Net Calories: 1,978

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
9 Grain Bread	2.50	250	5g	0mg	450mg	50g	8g	8g	10g
Great Value Fat-free Turkey Breast (sliced)	3.00	60	0g	30mg	1,020mg	0g	0g	0g	15g
Tillamook Sliced Medium Cheddar Cheese	1.00	90	7g	20mg	125mg	0g	0g	0g	5g
romaine lettuce leaves	1.00	5	0g	0mg	2mg	1g	0g	1g	0g
Campbell's V8 Original	1.00	30	0g	0mg	330mg	7g	4g	1g	1g
Quaker Apple and Cinnamon Instant Oatmeal	1.00	130	2g	0mg	190mg	27g	9g	3g	3g
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Original	1.00	100	2g	0mg	75mg	19g	0g	3g	4g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g
Activia Mixed Berry	1.00	110	2g	10mg	70mg	19g	17g	0g	5g
Mashed Potatoes	2.00	474	18g	4mg	1,399mg	71g	6g	6g	8g
Sloppy Joe Meat	2.00	290	12g	86mg	572mg	12g	12g	0g	60g
1% Milk	1.00	102	2g	12mg	120mg	12g	13g	0g	8g
Pineapple Upside Down Cake	1.00	150	6g	18mg	146mg	24g	17g	1g	2g
Tillamook Premium Ice Cream Old-Fashioned vanilla	2.00	320	18g	50mg	100mg	34g	20g	0g	6g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	22.0	-173.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,978	74g	230mg	4,599mg	281g	105g	26g	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 :-)

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

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