On their final push to and back from the Pacific Ocean, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark forever changed the Pacific Northwest.
Contemporary travellers can comfortably immerse themselves in three captivating Northwest towns along the route taken by Lewis and Clark’s party, known as the Corps of Discovery. Oregon’s Hood River and Astoria and Washington’s Walla Walla — all within striking distance of Portland — have evolved in recent decades from resource-based economies to tourist draws with vibrant, historic downtowns.
“… rained all the last night we are all wet … the wind blew with Such violence that I expected every moment to See trees taken up by the roots … O! how disagreeable is our Situation,” he wrote in his journal on Nov. 28, 1805. The river represented a formidable danger here when Lewis and Clark’s party first passed through in their canoes in late 1805. In “Undaunted Courage,” author Stephen E. Ambrose describes how Native Americans “gathered by the hundreds along the banks to watch the white men drown themselves.”
, where guide Alex Taylor promised we would get plenty wet while running rapids such as Top Drop and Corkscrew. He was right.Article content
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