The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 14-214

"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, August 2, 2014

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I got my kicks on Route 66 last night after finishing my appointments for the day and doing initiatories at the temple. You didn't know the Los Angeles Temple was originally on Route 66 before it was renumbered as the famous (in our family) California highway 2? Amazing what you useless but fun trivia you will learn on the terreeeblay blog. I did a loop. (starting past the junior high that I walked to, as an 8th grader to attend summer school, because I wanted to. OK tell me I'm crazy, I can handle it ...) Then followed the path I used to walk to get there for roughly half way, then returned back past my high school and along Santa Monica Blvd ("Route 66")., that road Sheryl Crow made famous. 5.02 miles with 234 feet climbed in 1:42:14 hours. Tortoise rating would be 6.0 because of the low elevation, but it earned its Benjamin category override to 5 based on the five mile distance and the fact I pulled a muscle halfway through and had no choice but to finish. (I'm going to be fine).

There's plenty of pictures with the map if you click below to continue reading ...

Cheerio!

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Love the visitors center

Used to be the Travelodge, Willyne and I spent 2 days there on our honeymoon :-)

The road between the temple and the school is Massachusetts Avenue :-)

Becca, they have the free lunch in summer program here too :-)

Made me think of Jacob

So did this

This one made me think of Bishop Olds in Toquerville 2nd Ward,
where I've been assigned the past year. It's his old mission home.

The mission home is shared with the Family Search library.
Nice quote on the wall!

2014 Stats:

612.48 miles walked, which is 61.19% of my 2014 goal.

193:08:24 hours walked, which is 61.71% of my 2014 goal

28,732 total feet climbed

97,799 calories burned
58.79% of the year has passed

I've walked 54 consecutive non-Sundays since my last missed day on May 31, and overall have walked on 173 of the 184 non-Sundays thus far in 2014, a 94.02% 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.

The tortoise is smiling!

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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, August 2, 2014

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