The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 14-170

"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, June 19, 2014

14-170

I walked to Valley Academy for my final board meeting this evening ... the long way so that after the meeting I could quickly walk back to the office, pack and go home, and have my walk done for the day. 3.47 miles with 162 feet climbed in 1:03:43 hours. Tortoise rating: 5.2; calories burned: 540. For a map, another picture, and more quite boring stats, please click below to continue reading ...

Cheerio!

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We will take the steepest of the roads at the intersection,
the notch slight left :-)

Shhhh ... don't tell the Boredom Committee ...

The tortoise presents to you another of his favorite walking songs, or one to pound out work to. The whole thing is great, but you know how much I love instrumentals and at 3:10 these guys start an amazing one. Someone out there must agree with me, because Rolling Stone has dubbed it number 27 on their all time list of 500 greatest songs. Put on those earbuds and tell me if you don't walk a little faster listening to this one ...

2014 Stats:

477.06 miles walked, which is 47.66% of my 2014 goal.

147:14:21 hours walked, which is 47.38% of my 2014 goal

21,979 total feet climbed

76,224 calories burned

46.65% of the year has passed

I've walked on 135 of the 146 non-Sundays thus far in 2014, a 92.47% consistency rating.

The purpose of the percentages is to have a higher percentage of distance and time walked than of the year. This tells me I am on track. I'm sure this is more numbers than you are interested in, all I can say is I'm really good at setting high goals and having them slip away because I don't do them every, every day.

I know I'm doing the right thing at this time focusing on my business, dealing with all the changes happening there, and leaving the charter school board, but I will leave a piece of me on the wall in the far hall by one of the seventh grade classrooms. I enjoyed doing my bit to make local education just a little better. One step at a time ...

The tortoise is smiling!

3 comments:

Doug JrJune 20, 2014 at 7:57 PM
Boredom is not an option! The terrible herbst still lives!!!
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BenjaminJune 20, 2014 at 8:35 PM
I see what you are doing here, providing awes tunes while reading glorious stats on your hiking adventures. This absolutely receives a citation from the boredom committee even though this walk is one of your classics.

Since making these official this is your first citation- you've been warned.
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UnknownJune 23, 2014 at 11:03 PM
Terrible Herbst has kept his place of honor at the top of the right column. Even the boring accounting songs couldn't knock them out of their place. But Tortoise has been chastened by the Boredom Committee and will try ever harder to meet its standards of excellence in providing needed boredom to the teeming masses of the world.
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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 :-)