Cape Disappointment Historic District--Lewis and Clark Expedition: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary

Cape Disappointment Historic District--Lewis and Clark Expedition: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary: "Cape Disappointment is a large headland forming the northern portion of the mouth of the Columbia River, as it opens to the Pacific Ocean. Most members of the Corps of Discovery arrived in this area where they were first able to glimpse the ocean on November 15, 1805, and set up a base camp near Chinook Point. However, Lewis and a small party of men had set out ahead of the rest of the group the day before and began scouting for a favorable site for a winter encampment. On November 17th, Lewis and his party returned from the area of Cape Disappointment and located Clark's base camp."

Josh's next camping trip ... this weekend. "This is the campout to attend if you want to work on the Lewis & Clark Silver Award! We'll be doing the hike for requirements 5 and 6 during this campout - a 9-mile round-trip hike to the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center and the Cape Disappointment Lighthouse (cool!) (and, it's not straight up, like the Gorge hike was!).

This'll be tent camping and patrol cooking. But, for a Boy Scout camp it'll be positively plush - they have showers :-)"