Lewis & Clark Trail
							Bears Oil and Roots Camp, their June 27, 1806 camp, may be in one of two areas: a smaller ridge lower down, top right; or the highest ridge, left. Captain Lewis noted: "...we arrived at a situation very similar to our encampment of the last evening tho' the ridge was somewhat higher and the snow had not been so long dissolved....our meat being exhausted we issued a pint of bears oil to a mess which with their boiled roots made an agreeable dish." Hence the camp's name.
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