The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-317

"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, November 13, 2013

13-317

Did a 20:15 minute walk around 6:30 this evening, under partly cloudy, moonlit skies, 63 degrees and no wind. Made it 1.12 miles in that time, climbing 102 feet, with a tortoise rating of 4.3 on the uphill half of the walk. HumanaFit rates it category 5.

Please click below for a map, a couple pictures of the night view looking down this hill, and the daily line by line account of calories consumed and burned ...

Cheerio!

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Hurricane Instacare looking down from a block away

Guess it shouldn't be a surprise the most dominant feature of the
Hurricane night skyline is the stream of cars on State Street over
any of the buildings. Second place is the car lights on the
residential street 400 South, shown to the right above.

Calorie Goal: 2,291 Calories Consumed: 1,382 Calories Burned: 174 Net Calories: 1,208

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 - Maple & Brown Sugar	1.00	160	3g	0mg	260mg	32g	9g	3g	4g
Activia Mixed Berry Yogurt	1.00	110	2g	10mg	70mg	19g	17g	0g	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
Green Leaf Lettuce	0.33	5	0g	0mg	13mg	1g	0g	0g	0g
Dreyer's Rich & Creamy Grand Ice Cream Real Strawberry	2.00	240	10g	40mg	60mg	32g	28g	0g	4g
Keebler Keebler Waffle Cones	1.00	50	1g	0mg	25mg	10g	4g	0g	0g
Lima Beans n Ham	1.50	252	6g	0mg	3mg	20g	2g	6g	6g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	22.0	-174.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein

2 comments:

RachelNovember 14, 2013 at 4:10 AM
Pretty view at night, quite the hill you climbed friend, and it never ceases to amaze me how many different courses you find for your walks!
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UnknownNovember 14, 2013 at 6:34 PM
You motivate me to motivate myself. I feel so much better when I walk, especially if I include a hill. Variety makes it more interesting to do. And if I am always on the lookout for different places to walk, then I will have something new for you to look at. Which makes me very happy. See how much you help me!
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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 :-)