Porter Creek Area Capitol State Forest

10.1 miles of hiking • 1250' elevation gain •

Beautiful day for hiking, so we headed up to Capitol State Forest in the Porter Creek Campground area. When we arrived there was a large group of people filming a video, and they said it was for an Amazon movie. The whole thing was quite strange and one of them told me I couldn't take pictures. Everything about this spelled amateur, and we started the hike ASAP as a couple of them were smoking, and it stunk!

We first headed out to Porter Creek Falls. It was a very nice short trail, except when we arrived there was a fire roaring at the viewpoint, and lots of trash was scattered around the area. We quickly took pictures and then left, but bumped into the teenagers that trashed the area. We didn't say anything and just left the area quickly.

We next headed out on the North Rim trail, which started about 0.4 miles down the road and northeast of our parking area. Once on this trail we only saw one mountain biker the remainder of the hike! There were plenty of puddles on the trail but they were easy to step around. Only a few areas with views, but the views contained clear cuts from the logging operation. All in all, a nice day!

I tried out a new camera today and so far am very pleased with it. I'm trying to lighten my load and the SLR setup I was carrying weighed in at about 4 pounds! This Sony RX10 camera only weighs 1.8 pounds, which puts much less stress on my shoulder.