Day 39

We made it into Marion a day ahead of our original schedule.

When I had started planning for this trip, I had us getting from banner elk to Damascus in 4 days, and us getting from Damascus to marion in 4 as well. Both segments only took 3 days.

I slept pretty good. Our campsite wasn't super level, but with good sleeping temps and a light breeze acting as background noise, I slept very well.

There wasn't any particular standalone mountain that we were aiming to get over today, just walk slightly over 25 miles into marion. The weather was perfect, and we did exactly that.

By the end of the day, my feet were extremely tired. At this point in the hike, a lot of the muscle and joint pain is completely gone. Sure, my calves, hips, and shoulders aren't perfect, but the only really noticeable thing that consistently aches are my feet.

We started hiking around 8am, and by 5:30 we had gone 25.2 miles. We ordered $130 dollars worth or pizza, burgers, subs, and wings, and by the time breakfast had ended the next morning, only a couple slices of pizza were left.

We did a resupply in Marion that night, and our next goal was to get to chucks house 2 days later, with an option of getting into his place the morning of the 3rd day. We are now just one full resupply away from Pearisburg!

Daily recap:
- Total miles: 25.2
- From: mile marker 520.9 to 546.1
- From A campsite off of racoon creek trail to the relax inn in Marion
- high temp of 65
- low temp (morning) 45
- low temp (evening) 50
- total ascent: 4,193
- total descent: 5,512

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