Lolo Trail Ridge
the falling Snow & Snow from the trees which kept us wet all the after noon
William Clark
we expect that their is game near a head.
Joseph Whitehouse
Indian Grave Creek
Indian Grave Peak
passed over Several high ruged Knobs and Several dreans & Springs passing to the right, & passing on the ridge devideing the waters of two Small rivers.
-William Clark-
This knob is close to the ones they passed on September 17th.
Photo date: October 25, 2009
High Rock on the Lolo Trail
We ascended some very high mountains, & very rockey paths & many bare places on the Mountains & high Rocks Standing upright on them.
-Joseph Woodhouse-
This rock is further west, but nearby, the rocks described in the journals.
Photo date: October 25, 2009
Lolo Trail View
Snow on the Knobs, no Snow in the vallies
-William Clark-
This view looks south and west from the Smoking Place in the morning. They would have had similar, but not as spectacular, views as they traveled on September 17th.
Photo date: October 25, 2009
Lolo Trail near the Smoking Place
the afternoon clear and pleasant & warm. the Snow melted fast. the water Stood in the trail over our mockns
-John Ordway-
Photo date: October 25, 2009
Female Spruce Grouse
(Falcipennis canadensis)
Killed a fiew Pheasents which was not Sufficient for our Supper which compelled us to kill Something. a coalt being the most useless part of our Stock he fell a Prey to our appetites.
-William Clark-
This grouse posed at Moon Saddle, near the route the Corps traveled on September 17th.
Photo date: September 11, 2009
Grave Creek Meadows
we Encamped on the top of a high Knob of the mountain at a run passing to the left.
-William Clark-
The Corps camped here, not at a nearby pond now called the Sinque Hole. The creek (run) leaves this meadow to the left, and the area is a historic camp site for the Nez Perce traveling the Road to the Buffalo. It is approximately the half-way point between Kamiah and the Bitterroot valley and close to the sacred Smoking Place.
Photo date: October 25, 2009
