A Dismal Nitch

we got a Safe place for our Stores and formed a Campment on Drift logs

nothing to eate but dried fish pounded which we brought from the falls.
William Clark

Photo date: November 11, 2008
Some modern artifacts have been obscured.

A dark and stormy day with waves breaking on rocks and drift logs

The Dismal Nitch

the waves became So high that we were compelled to return about 2 miles to a place we Could unload our Canoes, which we did in a Small nitch
-William Clark-

Photo date: November 11, 2008
Some modern artifacts have been obscured.

Historic painting of the Corp paddling to the Dismal Nitch on a stormy day.

Drawing by Roger Cooke. Courtesy of the Washington State Historical Society.