LEWIS AND CLARK

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Thursday, November 10, 2005

One enduring legacy of Corps of Discovery

T wo hundred years ago this week, Lewis and Clark neared the end of their perilous journey to the Pacific. The recent weather should remind us of what life might have been like for the Corps of Discovery as it made its way down the Columbia River Gorge.

Earlier, members of the expedition had climbed atop a mesa overlooking the Columbia, below its confluence with the Snake River in Southeastern Washington, revealing a distant Mount Hood. This put them 'back on the map,' for they knew before they began their journey that Mount Hood was but a few days' travel from the ocean."