Retracing the Lewis and Clark Trail Our Personal Voyage of Discovery
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Retracing the Lewis and Clark Trail Our Personal Voyage of Discovery Summer 2003 Skip and Janet Ross Copyright © 2004. All rights reserved. Portions of this document may be copied for personal use without permission, but none of it may be used for commercial purposes without express written permission. For permission contact the author at http://www.closereach.com/lc 2 Table of Contents Index of Figures and Photographs............................................................................................... 4 Prologue.......................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 1 May, 2003....................................................................................................................8 Chapter 2 June, 2003................................................................................................................. 17 Chapter 3 July, 2003..................................................................................................................27 Map Note...................................................................................................................................30 Chapter 4 August, 2003............................................................................................................. 49 Chapter 5 September, 2003.......................................................................................................64 Chapter 6 October, 2003........................................................................................................... 85 Epilogue........................................................................................................................................ 92 The Lewis and Clark Expedition...............................................................................................92 Enjoy Ourselves........................................................................................................................ 95 Set the Stage for our Future.......................................................................................................95 Appendix A...................................................................................................................................96 President Thomas Jefferson's Instructions to Meriwether Lewis..............................................96 Appendix B................................................................................................................................. 100 The Permanent Party............................................................................................................... 100 Appendix C.................................................................................................................................103 The 'mosts' -- notes while driving home..................................................................................103 BEST & WORST OF THINGS:............................................................................................. 105 Alphabetical Index.....................................................................................................................107 Table of Contents 3 Index of Figures and Photographs Mendocino Abalone Fishermen.......................................... 8 The Rocky Oregon Coast.................................................... 9 Fort Clatsop Recreated........................................................ 11 Cannon Beach......................................................................12 Rhododendrons....................................................................12 Long Beach Statue...............................................................14 Chanticleer Point and the Columbia....................................15 Rattlesnake Rapids on the Deschutes..................................19 Looking East from Maryhill................................................ 20 The Touchet Campsite.........................................................24 Palouse Falls........................................................................25 Reenacting Military Precision............................................. 26 Some of the Expedition's Tools...........................................26 Granite Lake from Our Campsite........................................ 27 Queen of the West............................................................... 29 The Clearwater from the Bitterroots....................................31 The Lolo Trail Route...........................................................32 Travelers Rest......................................................................32 Beaverhead Rock.................................................................33 The Now Underwater Site of Camp Fortunate....................34 Pompey's Pillar.................................................................... 36 Clark's Inscription................................................................36 Headwaters of the Missouri.................................................36 Gates of the Rocky Mountains............................................ 37 Baring Falls......................................................................... 39 Red Rock Falls.................................................................... 39 The Glaciers.........................................................................39 Our Red Bus........................................................................ 40 View from the Top of Going to the Sun Road.................... 40 Local Park Residents........................................................... 40 Great Falls........................................................................... 41 World's shortest river, the Roe............................................ 41 Above Fort Benton.............................................................. 42 Old Shep..............................................................................43 Missouri-Yellowstone Rivers Confluence.......................... 46 Erosion-exposed layers........................................................46 Just takin' it easy..................................................................47 Fort Mandan replica............................................................ 47 Sacagawea and "Pompey"................................................... 49 Earth lodge replica...............................................................50 Pronghorn at the Dakota Zoo.............................................. 50 Capitol building at Pierre.................................................... 51 Fighting Stallions memorial................................................ 51 Janet crossing the Mississippi............................................. 54 4 Index of Figures and Photographs Our tower.............................................................................55 BIG truck!............................................................................55 Hull Rust Mine.................................................................... 55 See the climbers?.................................................................56 Gooseberry Falls..................................................................57 Why am I smiling?.............................................................. 59 Pattison Falls....................................................................... 59 LaCrosse Queen...................................................................62 New Ulm's glockenspiel......................................................65 Vacancy............................................................................... 65 Sioux Falls...........................................................................66 Badlands vista......................................................................67 Not so wild burros............................................................... 69 Mount Rushmore ..............................................................69 Devil's Tower...................................................................... 70 View from Mulberry Bend Overlook.................................. 72 Sergeant Floyd Memorial.................................................... 73 Replica of Lewis & Clark keelboat..................................... 75 "Under the clock"................................................................ 77 Arrow Rock main street.......................................................79 Janet rides the Katy Trail.....................................................79 The Arch..............................................................................81 View from the top................................................................81 Lewis, Clark and Seaman.................................................... 82 Respite from the rainstorm.................................................. 82 Replica of fort at Wood River............................................. 83 All but the 8 horses..............................................................84 Our first fall colors.............................................................. 85 Index of Figures and Photographs 5 Prologue Today, Janet and I set out on one of the greatest adventures of our life. A description in simple terms might make it sound mundane. We will drive to St. Louis, or possibly the East Coast, and return. Our route will trace the Lewis and Clark “Voyage of Discovery”. But describing this trip so simply misses the point entirely. This will be our own personal