There's footage from Roan, TN to Marion, VA. So he passed 400, mile, then 500 miles and crossed into Virginia within the past two weeks. He'll be in Virginia about a month since it's the state with the most miles on the AT, 550 miles! But it has a lot fewer high mountains, more farms and valleys and the beautiful Shenandoah so hikers make a lot of time and manage high mile averages while going through Virgina. Loner decided not to stay in Damascus and wait on his mail drop - it would have been an extra 2 or 3 days in town and that can eat up a lot of a hiker's money. He also wanted to get to his computer so he could download his videos so he headed north, met a lot of SOBO hikers and cyclists heading to Damascus but he saw bears, cows and ponies and visited or stayed in some cool hostels. Black Bear Resort looks killer - we may have to stay there if we go to Damascus for Trail Days next year - which he says he wants to do. He would have liked to have stayed but not that many days. Bummer the P.O. closed at 11:30 pm and he missed three boxes of his food mail drop. Hopefully they've bounced them ahead. He's glad to have run into some of the folks he's already hiked with on the trail! Some days he hikes 25 miles and has lost 30 lbs so far. Hope you enjoy the videos!
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