Sounds very cool. Details, man! Pack weight, amount of water, etc.

The IT band tends to get problematic on lots of folks, it seems. You can buy big foam "logs" at most big sporting good stores (Chick's, Dick's, etc), that you lie on and slide your body up and down, essentially letting the log stretch your IT band. I suppose having someone use a rolling pin on your leg would do the same thing. My fiance did this when marathon training and it seemed to help a lot.

Congrats! 48 miles is nothing to laugh at. Especially when you consider than in an evac, you might not even drive that far in a day!