| Mile | 625.8 |
| Miles Since Last Update | 20.2 |
| Day | 55 |
Hot as all hell today. Plan was to be up early and have a possibility of making it to pearisburg but I slept thru my alarm. Was speeding thru the first half of the 20 miles today but there was a massive climb out of dismal falls that killed my pace. I could see in the log books that a lot of people had taken a shortcut to dodge it (including known shortcut taker, Slinky, who I am surprised to learn I’m not too far behind).
Decided I’d just stay at the historic Woods Hole hostel, which had been highly recommended to me. It’s a real cool spot, one of the oldest hostels on the trail, and the family that runs it has a shelter named after them (that I stayed at on day 4).
Tomorrow will be a super breezy walk into pearisburg. I think I’m going to take a zero there even though I don’t really feel like I “earned” it. The stretch from pearisburg to Roanoke tho is pretty barren in terms of resupply or places to stop, so I want to make sure my plan and food situation is solid.
Walked thru some more meadows in the morning
Crossed a river on a dicey suspension bridge
