On this day in Lewis & Clark history...
The rain continues. Clark climbs the mountain above their camp, but clouds obstruct his view of the Columbia River mouth and Pacific Ocean. Colter is sent around present Point Ellice, across from Astoria, Oregon, to find a better location.
From the journals...
November 13th Wednesday 1805
The rain continuing and weather proved So Cloudy that I could not See any distance
Columbia River near the Dismal Nitch
November 13th Wednesday 1805
we are in a Cove & the Mountains verry high & Pine Spruce verry high & thick
I saw a Small red Berry which grows on a Stem of about 6 or 8 Inches from the Ground, the taste insipid.
Devil's club, Oplopanax horridus
November 13th Wednesday 1805
I walked up the Brook & assended the first Spur of the mountain with much fatigue, the distance about 3 miles, through an intolerable thickets of Small pine, a groth much resembling arrow wood on the Stem of which there is thorns; this groth about 12 or 15 feet high inter lockd into each other and Scattered over the high fern & fallen timber, added to this the hills were So Steep that I was compelled to draw my Self up by the assistance of those bushes—
Stream at Dismal Nitch
