The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise

"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!

Monday, March 18, 2013

13-76

Walked 0.5 miles in 10 minutes, climbed 16 flights of stairs totalling 80 feet. Ate 1802 calories. One day at a time ...

Saturday, March 16, 2013

13-75

Walked 0.5 miles in 10 minutes ... while climbing 56 flights of stairs totalling 280 vertical feet. Ate 2006 calories. Click here for

Today's final word ...

13-74

I walked 0.5 miles in 10 minutes today, including 18 flights of stairs totalling 90 feet, and ate 2318 calories. I have up and down days, clearly. Click here for

Today's final word ...

13-73

After a Sweet Tomatoes late lunch/early dinner I had 18 minutes for a quick 1.11 mile walk on a little piece of the Jordan River Parkway before a 5 pm appointment in Riverton today. Tortoise rating: 5.6. Felt really good to walk (somewhere besides the stairs :-)

Monday, March 11, 2013

13-70

Minimum 0.5 mile walk, 20 feet of stairs climbed.

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13-66

Minimum 0.5 mile walk with 20 feet of stair climbed.

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13-64

Walked 0.75 miles in 15 minutes, climbing 10 flights of stairs (80 feet). Tortoise rating: 5.9. Raced all day so I could be where I had to be to catch the plane home and deal with everyone who still wanted to be dealt with ... didn't have a chance to eat much. After breakfast with a client at Ruby's Diner in Yorba Linda (egg white omelette with mushrooms, spinach, and swiss cheese, one slice of buttered wheat toast, half a fresh fruit cup, and water) I had 3 fiber one bars and 2 servings of turkey jerky to get through the day. I did treat myself to an Orange Carrot Karma smoothie from my friends at Jamba Juice as I walked from the gate to luggage pickup at the Vegas airport (no tram for me, I'm sure I was a sight with my bulging backpack and an overstuffed tote bag filled with files I picked up on the trip.

All this is to explain away why eating totalled 1240 calories as I now sit on the St George Executive Shuttle on the next leg of my journey home. I would have rather had 30 extra minutes to sneak in some more Souplantation. I really don't tire of the place, I suppose that sounds boring, but it makes me happy. Total last 7 days: 12275.

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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 :-)