The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: Parenthetical Smiling Tortoise Commentary

"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!

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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

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Mile 643. After the day's work was complete, Tortoise started for home on a longer, alternate route because the Blue Cut fire closed down a major stretch of Interstate 15 yesterday. The alternate put Lou on Interstate 10, so he made the best of it by getting off at Exit 110 near Cabazon where the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) passes underneath the busy freeway at mile 209.5 of the trail's journey from Mexico to Canada. Tortoise parked his car on the ample dirt shoulder of the frontage road near the freeway exit, and started walking south on the trail to the secluded village of Snow Creek, where he started his last PCT walk on May 12. Come enjoy the pictures he took along the way there and back, as well as the walking thought by David Evans ...

Cheerio!

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Mile 860. As things turned out, this was almost the identical walk as yesterday, but before you attempt to convince the Boredom Committee to invent a green card so it can give one to the smiling Tortoise, consider how often one sees different things in the same places on a second look. That doesn't convince you? Well then, welcome to post 1040, something that would only mean something to a tax geek. Tortoise has been asked for an encore of his 1,000th post, published on September 12. which Lou decided would be fun to attempt for post 1040. Which of these walks intrigue you enough to want to do it yourself?

Cheerio!

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Mile 3 as the new year begins and with it, the attempt to repeat walking an average of an hour a day on at least 95% of the 313 days other than Sunday in the year. (Believe me, Tortoise's sixty-one year old bones are ready for a rest each Sunday after six days of walking an hour) Any day I don't walk at least two miles counts as a missed day. There were only 15 missed days in 2014, that will be a tough standard to meet or improve on this year!

No Pat Riley guarantees from the Tortoise, just an honest consistent daily effort that should take me at least an extra mile over last year's goal ... that would be 1,002 miles.

For you post-millenials reading this, I offer this little piece of history "rap" on Mr. Riley ...

Understand that when Pat made his guarantee, either the Lakers, or Celtics, or both, had made it to every NBA championship series of the 1980s, but no team had won two championships in a row for 18 years! People were seriously arguing at that time that it was no longer possible to do so, yet, here was Pat guaranteeing it.

I'm hoping to not only build health and vitality in this effort, but to have so much fun doing it, that many of you will set and achieve your own tortoise goals and share your accomplishments with us here on Lou's blog. What a great tribute that would be to the noble Iron Horse!

For more on today's walk along with the day's energetic walking thought by Ruth Wright, please click below to continue reading!

Cheerio!

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Pioneer Hills Trail to T-Bone Trail to Pioneer Park to Red Cliffs Parkway Trail ... brings you this view and more in just 4.18 miles! (Less if you don't purposely pass the highway underpass to your parked car so that you can walk that "extra mile"). Tortoise completed today's edition (rated 3.7) in 1:18:58 hours and burned 655 calories en route. For a map, more pictures, a video, some tunes, and the walking message containing THE secret for living a long, happy, and useful life, by all means 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

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

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Thursday, October 22, 2015

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Thursday, January 1, 2015

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Thursday, October 9, 2014

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