Lewis & Clark Trip Day 28: Oregon and Washington (6/4/2021)

Friday, June 4, 2021

This time it is road, railroad, and river (Columbia River)

*On 10/18/1805, William Clark was astonished to see a snow-covered mountain south of the Columbia River.*

John Jay Dam (1958-1971),
where on a clear day you can see Mount Hood

Wind turbines

*On 10/22/1805, the Corps of Discovery reached the Great Falls of the Columbia River and had to portage.*

Lake Celilo was created by the Dalles Dam (1952-1957),
putting the Celilo Falls underwater

Lewis & Clark Trail sign (KSS)

*On 10/25/1805, after the perilous descent down the rapids of the Columbia River, the Corps of Discovery camped in an area that they fortified with rocks, as they had heard the local natives were hostile. However, the Tenino tribe members turned out to be friendly.*

Rock Fort Campsite has a vertical
cliff to the Columbia River

Rock Fort view across the river,
which is much wider today because of dams

Columbia Gorge Discovery Center (1997)
in The Dalles, OR

A wall fountain at the Discovery Center (KSS)

Imagined Columbia Mammoth

More basket hats, one with beading work (KSS)

Mount Hood, Oregon (1865, by Albert Bierstadt)

A family on the Oregon Trail, rafting across the Columbia River

This is what Celilo Falls looked like before the dam;
in the foreground are fishing platforms of the natives

Apparently the George Lawrence Saddle Company
manufactured saddles in bulk and sold them via
Sears, Roebuck, and Co, and Montgomery Ward,
making saddles affordable for any rancher or merchant

Here the Corps of Discovery medicine chest
has become even larger

Replicas of the lead canisters Meriwether Lewis had made,
to carry and protect powder and lead for ball shot

Eriogonum compositum/Heartleaf Buckwheat

Heartleaf Buckwheat with budding flowers

Coreopsis variety

Hood River Lift Bridge (1924, with the
lift added in 1938) has nine-foot wide lanes

White Salmon Baking Company in White Salmon, WA
was recommended by Kirby

We had a ham-and-cheese on baguette sandwich
with a slice of rhubarb custard cake

Heading back on the Hood River Bridge,
we could see Mount Hood yet again

*On 10/29/1805, the Corps of Discovery camped on bottomland with large trees near a confluence of small river.*

A warning at the confluence of the
Hood River into the Columbia River (KSS)

The Hood River just in front of us has a lighter color
than the Columbia River as they flow to the left

A couple kiteboarding ramps (they ride the edges like in
skateboarding) where the Hood River joins the Columbia River

Large trees and a "beach"

Rubus sp/Blackberry flowers

Next: Washington and Oregon.