Mile 773. Lou has been looking for the Rusty Cliffs trail, which he had noticed on maps just north of City Creek trail. But he had found it challenging to actually find along the Red Cliffs Parkway. Today, Tortoise figured it out. It turns out the City Creek trail forks near its western terminus at the Parkway. The right fork he walked back on September 7. It ends at the Parkway. The left fork goes under the parkway, and when you emerge from the tunnel, the view shown above appears and the Rusty Cliffs trail begins. Lou accessed it today by parking near the Sunset shopping center and theaters and walking up to the Red Cliffs Parkway and taking the right fork of City Creek trail to the left fork. There's a map later on if that was confusing. The views are lovely on this path just across highway 18 from the Chuckawalla trailhead. Somehow the dirt path compared with the paved one that hugs the highway seems much more like you are out in the wilds. Be sure to let Lou know what you think!
Walking thought was provided by Quentin Cook today.
Cheerio!
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| The underpass that will be used momentarily goes under the highway where the railing appears on the right. |
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| There's the railing again. Let's go under the Parkway. |
Today's walk was 3.80 miles, done in 1:23:31 hours at an average pace of 21:59 minutes per mile. This route had an average tortoise rating of 3.8, earned by climbing 459 feet in the 1.90 mile uphill portion. Average elevation was 3075.
This was #hike15 of Lou's 52 Hike Challenge.
This was #hike15 of Lou's 52 Hike Challenge.
Here are the overall stats so far for 2016:
773.65 miles walked, compared with Lou's goal for this date of 754.78.
Tortoise has climbed a total of 54,762 feet so far in 2016, compared to a year-to-date goal of 46,452. Lou hopes to climb more than the 61,316 feet he climbed in 2015 -- as a way to get the 125 heart rate his doctor suggests for these walks. So far in 2016, Tortoise's walks have averaged 59:15 minutes each, compared with his daily average of 1:07:04 hours the previous year. He enjoys seeing what he can do in an hour and change each day!
His average pace so far in 2016 has been 18:09.2 minutes per mile, compared with his 18:25 minute per mile pace in 2015.
Lou has walked 438 consecutive non-Sundays since his 8 missed days May 2-11, 2015. overall he has walked on 541 of the 550 non-Sundays in 2015-16, a 98.364% consistency rating.
Today's walking thought was "The Songs They Could Not Sing", by Quentin L. Cook from the October 2011 LDS General Conference.
"My beloved mission president, Elder Marion D. Hanks (who passed away in August 2011), asked us as missionaries to memorize a statement to resist mortal challenges: 'There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.' (See “Will,” Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917), 129)"
The tortoise is smiling!
I guess that's the difference between a hike and a walk. Beautiful views.
ReplyDeleteI have never quite figured out the difference between a hike and a walk either. I've mostly thought of what I do as a walk, since they are often on city streets or sidewalks and only take an hour or so. I suppose I've always thought a hike was supposed to be longer than that, maybe half a day. Being on a dirt trail where you have to look to see a road or a city view might be more of a characteristic of a hike. I suppose in the end, the difference is whatever you want it to be, ha!
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