Daily Archives: May 25, 2014

Day 40 – Atkins, VA to mile 563

We headed out of the Relax Inn and grabbed breakfast at The Barn, which is basically a diner-ish restaurant across from the truck stop near where the trail goes under I-81. It was pretty good stuff. We hit the trail around 9am. It was pretty similar to the past few days with rolling ridges and occasional farmland pasture/meadow crossings.

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Farm and trail crisscross

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Some ridges in the distance that we hiked down from

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Day 39 – mile 530 to Atkins, VA (Relax Inn)

We made our way out of camp and towards Atkins by 8am. The hike was mostly easy terrain, with some minor elevation change. We eventually started seeing farms and hearing the familiar highway noise of I-81. The Relax Inn is right off an exit and the trail goes through an underpass here.

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Ridges and valleys of southwest Virginia

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Small Virginia farm

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