Lewis & Clark Trip Day 27: Snake River (6/3/2021)

Thursday, June 3, 2021 (continued)

We had lunch at Roosters Waterfront Restaurant in Clarkston,
WA, which is across the Snake River from Lewiston, ID

View from Roosters Waterfront Restaurant

Chief Timothy Park in Clarkston, WA; we have had
this warning for a couple of our hikes

The Listening Circle Trail in Chief Timothy Park (KSS)

The Listening Circle (2015, by Maya Lin), part of the
Confluence Project,  was inspired by a Nez Perce
blessing ceremony where the women face north,
the men face south (on the barely seen semi-
circular basalt benches), and the elders face east

We assume these basalt blocks were for the elders

Achillea millefolium/Common Yarrow

Erigeron poliospermus/Gray-seeded Fleabane;
have not yet identified the yellow flowers

Vicia villosa/Hairy Vetch

Artemesia tridentata/Big Sagebrush maybe

*On 5/3/1806, on the return trip, the Corps of Discovery followed a native travois trail.*

The Travois Trail (using the two-pole sledge pulled by horses
or dogs) crossed right to left across the field, then went up
the hill diagonally from left to right; near Pomeroy, WA

*On 5/6/1806, the Corps of Discovery camped in a small valley near the Touchet River, before heading to the high plains on an overland shortcut.*

A metal silhouette points the way to the
Patit Creek Campsite near Dayton, WA

Patit Creek Campsite: Lewis & Clark Historical Marker

Every Corps of Discovery member and every horse is represented by a metal silhouette

In front stands Seaman, the Newfoundland dog,
Meriwether Lewis, and a native guide showing Lewis
how to peel and eat a cow parsnip (KSS)

A carved figure of Sakagawea at the
Sakagawea State Park Interpretive Center
in Pasco, WA (KSS)

Another Confluence Project: Story Circles (2010,
by Maya Lin); this one is entitled Trade

A sunken story circle called Seasonal Round,
with native plants and animals

The Rivers before the Dams

Coyote Circle tells of the coyote's gift of salmon to the people

Tribes has the names of the Nations inscribed in a circle
meant to be shaped like a native longhouse

Salmon

Introduction explains the Confluence Project

Lewis & Clark Historical Marker (KSS)

*On 10/16/1805, the Corps of Discovery reached the Columbia River.*

The Snake River flows left to right into the Columbia River

*On 10/18-19/1805, the Corps of Discovery camped at the confluence of the Columbia and Walla Walla Rivers, where they met Chief Yellepit of the Wallulapum Nation.*

*From 4/27-30/1806, on the return trip, the Corps of Discover was invited to spend a few days with Wallulapum Chief Yellepit.*

A drive-by photo of the Walla Walla River
as it heads into the Columbia River

*On 10/19/1805, the Corps of Discovery passes a rock formation resembling a hat.*

Hat Rock near Umatilla, OR

Next: Lewis & Clark Trip Day 28.