The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: County

"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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Monday, February 16, 2015

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Mile 146. Tortoise was excited to learn of the birth of his newest grandchild, Ruby Lou Jackson, today on Doug Jr.'s birthday no less! He also worked in two walks between tax appointments in California today. The first was a little less than a mile in Tehachapi, Kern County, followed by a little more than two miles at the end of the day in Lancaster, in the Antelope Valley of Los Angeles County. For a couple more pictures, other details, and today's walking thought by James Faust, please click below to continue reading ...

Cheerio!

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Tortoise travelled to Las Vegas this morning to help Willyne catch a flight to Florida to represent us at our Ragozzine grandchildren's Primary program ... then continued on to California for two days of business appointments. Here is a picture of a park in Tehachapi along the path of tonight's 2.67 mile walk with 65 feet climbed in 54:51 minutes. The average elevation of 4013 contributed to the tortoise rating of 5.4. 426 calories were burned along the way. For a map and a thought by Gordon B. Hinckley, please click below to continue reading ...

Cheerio!

14-69

Welcome, Spring ... at least it feels like it! I was able to start a walk at 7:30 pm after a long work day, and still see budding, blooming trees. A very nice, 4.36 mile walk, with 151 feet climbed, in 1:18:34 hours.

It was also the day I passed 200 miles for the year, in honor of that, and because I have been walking but not posting, if you will be kind enough to click below to continue reading, I will share some pictures from the past week's walks when I have been in travel mode ...

Cheerio!

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Today's final word ...

From reading in Luke 21, 2 Nephi 17, and the February 2013 First Presidency Message ...

"And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two ^amites.

"And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:

"For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

-- Luke 21:2-4

An important reminder that we are each asked to give our time, talents, and all the Lord has blessed us with to Him ... which seems like the supreme sacrifice until we remember King Benjamin's teaching: Whenever we give something to the Lord, He immediately repays us with blessings, leaving us still in His debt ...

“Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words.”

-- President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, First Presidency Message, February 2013, in the Ensign magazine, quoting St. Francis of Assisi, in William Fay and Linda Evans Shepherd, Share Jesus without Fear (1999), 22

^{My challenge to myself is to read this three times ... then repeat ... and internalize!}

^Cheerio!

Friday, June 15, 2012

3-45

Walked 3.30 miles in 1 hour 15 minutes today, including 200 feet climbed. Tortoise rating: 4.7. Chapter 3 totals are 45.13 miles walked in 18 hours 8 minutes, with 1,617 feet climbed, and 6 swims totalling 1,590 meters in 1 hour 32 minutes. It was my fourth category 5 climb, and first since June 12. Totals of my category 5 climbs is 7.04 miles with 588 feet climbed in 2 hour 32 minutes.

This was an impromptu walk. I passed the bridge where the Pacific Crest Trail crosses California Highway 58 in daylight, and since this happens rarely, it occurred to me that this was my chance to locate where the trail goes in both directions from this point, since sign markings are not as clear as I would like. It was a

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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