Lewis & Clark Trail
Smoking Place is close enough to FR 500 for visitors to ascend a short trail to this ridge (see next page). Clockwise from bottom left: Guide Bob Clark surveys the route east that the Corps navigated in 1806; the ridgeline curving east to the southeast; rock cairn, smaller, but similar to the one both Lewis and Clark described; the view south that the captains mentioned in their journals. Local LCT expert Steve Russell comments on the cairn: "[It] has never been reported in journals of later travelers...." He saw no cairn until the 1990's.
Lolo Motorway Idaho
lc main page | maps