Near Salmon, Idaho.
It is near here that Sacagawea met her brother and saved the Lewis & Clark expedition.
Driving south of Salmon on Highway 28 looking northeast st the Beaverhead Mountains toward Lemhi Pass.
The area where MacDonald's Battle took place.
Between Salmon and Tendoy, Idaho.
Yes, Idaho has lots of informative signs...
This is in Tendoy, Idaho.
The is the entry from my book for February 12, 1875: "President Grant established the Lemhi Valley Indian Reservation in central Idaho. This act was instigated by the effort of Chief Tendoy and his Lemhi followers."
Here I took a small road (more of a jeep trail) up to Lemhi Pass (7,373 feet elevation). It was near here that Lewis & Clark and Sacagawea met her brother, a Shoshone chief. This is one of the biggest coincidents in history, if you ask me. The Shoshone eventually provided the horses L & C needed to continue their trip.
This is on the Lemhi Pass road, about 8 miles northeast of Tendoy, Idaho. It is a one lane, dirt road.
The area of the "first campsite."
...and then it began to snow...
I eventually had to get out of my rented car (a Ford Escort, no less) when I came up on a two foot snow bank which covered the rutted, dirt trail. I hiked a bit through the snow up to the pass. It was a bit cold. The white streaks on the picture are falling snow.
This is Lemhi Pass (7,373 feet high).
The road at this point is little more than a jeep trail. It eventually goes to Grant, Montana. From the Lewis & Clark journal: "They left reluctantly this interesting spot, and pursuing the Indian road through the interval of the hills, arrived at the top of a ridge, from which they saw high mountains, partially covered with snow, still to the west of them. The ridge on which they stood formed the dividing line between the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans."
This is both sides of the same sign.
The Idaho side...
The Sacajawea (yeah, I know, the spelling changes from place to place) monument is located at the top of this hill. There is snow & ice everywhere.
The is back near Tendoy, Idaho looking at the snow storm I just left.
The only significance of this picture is that it was taken after 9pm. It was still light out. I suddenly remembered how far north I was. This was at the Gilmore Summit on Highway 28 around 7,186 feet.
