The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-325

"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, November 21, 2013

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It was a welcome rainy day in the 50s in LaVerkin today. I got busy and didn't do a measured walk, but in the course of taking out the trash, cleaning leaves from the pool, walking back and forth to the copy machine, and other activities of the day, I walked 0.5 miles in 10 minutes with 20 feet of stairs climbed.

Please click below for info on calories consumed and burned today ...

Cheerio!

Calorie Goal: 2,260 Calories Consumed: 2,273 Calories Burned: 79 Net Calories: 2,194

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Original	1.00	100	2g	0mg	75mg	19g	0g	3g	4g
Quaker Oatmeal Instant Cinnamon & Spice	1.00	170	2g	0mg	240mg	32g	16g	3g	4g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g
Dannon Activia Yogurt - Blueberry	1.00	110	2g	5mg	65mg	19g	17g	0g	5g
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Youngevity Renu IQ Adaptogenix	1.00	10	0g	0mg	0mg	3g	3g	0g	0g
Pulled Pork with BBQ Sauce (no bread)	2.00	418	11g	88mg	1,658mg	46g	38g	3g	32g
Vinegar Cole Slaw	1.00	72	4g	0mg	59mg	11g	0g	2g	0g
Waitrose Mini Corn on the Cob	0.75	34	1g	0mg	0mg	6g	1g	1g	1g
White Chocolate Chip Cookies	1.00	248	15g	11mg	18mg	28g	9g	0g	3g
Denny's Canteloupe Melon	2.00	64	0g	0mg	32mg	16g	14g	2g	2g
Turkey	1.00	220	9g	89mg	630mg	0g	0g	0g	32g
Lima Beans n Ham	1.00	168	4g	0mg	2mg	14g	2g	4g	4g
Cole Slaw, Fresh	1.00	47	2g	4mg	152mg	7g	2g	1g	1g
Sliced Cooked Carrots	1.00	35	0g	0mg	52mg	8g	0g	3g	0g
Kashi Friendly Fiber Muffin	1.00	100	0g	0mg	240mg	22g	11g	3g	3g
Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners	1.50	285	2g	0mg	15mg	68g	17g	9g	8g
1% Milk	1.00	102	2g	12mg	120mg	12g	13g	0g	8g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	10.0	-79.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,194	55g	209mg	3,358mg	330g	152g	38g	110g

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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, November 21, 2013

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