The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 07/01/2015

"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!

Friday, July 24, 2015

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Mile 599. Tortoise had a very full and most enjoyable Pioneer Day, starting with the pictured activities above in LaVerkin and ending in the evening with activities pictured later in this post in Springdale. In between he took an energetic walk from his office a ways down Tortoise Track trail in Confluence Park and back.

Cheerio!

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Mile 576. If there was any doubt that Tortoise is slow (but hopefully steady), we have this week as Exhibit A. Tortoise walked a "marathon, and a little extra, and those 26.4 miles "only" took six days! If you prefer to measure it use the time walked during those six days, that would be 8 hours 38 minutes 48 seconds. Were that a real marathon, Tortoise would have been escorted off the course hours before finishing. As it was, he enjoyed a vigorous week of walks, highlighted by Wednesday's walk on the Prospector Trail in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve pictured above.

For more pictures and other details from this week of walking, please click below to continue reading...

Cheerio!

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Mile 549. Tortoise enjoyed this beautiful early morning view after walking to the top of La Verkin's Center Street on Wednesday, July 8. For more pictures and other details from this walk and the rest of the week, along with links to six March walks that he has posted recently, please click below to continue reading ...

Cheerio!

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Mile 529. Happy Independence Day, America! Tortoise celebrated by getting up early and heading to the end of the Zion National Park shuttle at the Temple of Shinawava with Josh, Benjamin, Ethan, and Riley. We headed up the Riverside Walk from there, and then walked the river upstream for another half mile. For many more exciting pictures and other details from this walk and the rest of Tortoise's walking week, please click below to continue reading ...

Cheerio!

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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 :-)

The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise

Friday, July 24, 2015

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Saturday, July 18, 2015

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Saturday, July 11, 2015

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Saturday, July 4, 2015

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