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adventure zoom ahead another six days in their journey as I pulled in to Maryhill State Park for my second night of camping. I woke the next morning to threatening skies. Just as it had for Lewis and Clark, weather was closing in—I needed to get going. West of Maryhill, Clark had climbed to get a view of the dramatic Columbia Gorge, so that’s what I did. At Columbia Hills State Park, I hiked high above the river at Crawford Oaks, and finished just as the storm hit, bringing 40 mph winds down the Gorge. I hurried downriver to Beacon Rock State Park, mentioned in Clark’s journal as “the Beaten rock.” I had to agree with him. Sleet was now pounding the picturesque 848-foot volcanic monolith. My plan was to climb the switchbacking mile-long trail to the top, but with the storm getting worse every minute, I had second thoughts. “Climb it, you wussy!” Lewis said sternly inside my head. I did as ordered, topping out thirty minutes later in a raging gale. The end was in sight. I dried off in the car and zoomed ahead several more days to Lewis and Clark’s final challenge, a place where the explorers nearly died. As they reached the estuary of the Columbia, Clark wrote happily, “Ocian in view. O! The joy!” Then, suddenly, a vicious winter storm forced them to hunker down for six precarious days in what Clark famously called a “dismal little nitch.” I visited Dismal Nitch (now a National Park interpretive site) just across the Columbia from Astoria, Oregon, on another stormy day. “It would be distressing to a feeling person to see our situation,” Clark wrote. Yes, I felt for them. As darkness started to descend, I sprinted for the finish at Cape Disappointment State Park. It was Nov. 18, 1805—they had come more than 4,000 miles, and they finally got a view of the Pacific from the top of McKenzie Head. “We made it!” I said to them as I took in the view. That night, my expedition done, there would be no camping. I checked into the 1890s-era Shelburne Inn in Seaview, took a hot shower and slipped into a warm bed. FROM TOP The Listening Circle in Chief Timothy Park was designed by Maya Lin. Cape Disappointment State Park served as Nelson’s final stop. 72 <strong>1889</strong> WASHINGTON’S MAGAZINE FEBRUARY | MARCH <strong>2018</strong>
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