

We had difficulty locating a spot to park for this trail as we did not want to take the road walk on 314 to the Marshall Trail Swamp Trailhead, so we shuttled from the Fire Estinguisher store on SR 40 in the heart of the forest. We began our hike ten miles
north at the Eaton Creek trailhead. We toured a sinkhole before we got started which provided some excellent "tree shots". Tree huggers K&K were delighted. At the
beginning of the trail head there was a sign that warned us that some of the trail could be under water. I was a bit concerned, however K&K again seemed delighted. It was a poorly maintained less traveled trail that did indeed go
underwater for almost a half a mile. At the end of the hike we came accross some hunters with a kennel of dogs on the back of a pickup truck. We heard the dogs barking for miles. We questioned about what animal they had found
and the hunter said "dem dogs will bark all day if you let em" . We found our way out to SR 40 and finished off the day with a 4 dollar barbeque plate at a famous bbq pit in the forest.




