Lewis and Clark in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon

This is a continuation of the web page originally created in 2004. This short section includes areas of what is now Idaho, Washington, and Oregon which Lewis and Clark passed through in 1805 and the Hastings College class passed through in 2005.

Instead of an introduction that would repeat much of what I said last year, I'd like to include a poem I wrote about Lewis & Clark's journey and our Hastings College journey.

A Tribute to Lewis and Clark

We	travel in vans with air conditioning and heat.
	They traveled on foot, boat, and horseback with mosquitoes, bears, and wolves.

We	eat chicken stir fry, tacos, pancakes, beef stroganoff, bing cherries, and Walla Walla onions.
	They ate deer, salt pork, salmon, camas, dog, horse, leather, portable soup, melted snow, and candles.

We	sleep in sleeping bags on air mattresses or sleeping mats in tents or churches.
	They slept in oiled canvas or buffalo hides on the hard ground.

We	miss our spouses, children, grandchildren, and friends.
	They missed their parents and girlfriends.

We	had encounters with highway construction, winding mountain roads, grocery store power surge outages, coughs, and colds.
	They had encounters with grizzly bears, potentially hostile Indians, high mountains, river rapids, and the great unknown.

	We re-explore . . . They explored!

Claire Frevert

July 2005

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