Journal entry · November 12, 1805
Columbia estuary, storm-bound, vote on winter camp — Patrick Gass: November 12, 1805
Patrick Gass · Columbia estuary, storm-bound, vote on winter camp · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Columbia estuary, storm-bound, vote on winter camp
of rain, hail, thunder and lightning. We thought it best to
move our camp, and fixed our canoes and loaded them with
stone to keep them down. We went about the eighth of a
mile from this place, and fixed ourselves as well as we could,
and remained all night. The rain still continued, and the
river remained very rough.
W ednesday 13th. This was another disagreeable rainy day,
and we remained at camp being unable to get away. At 9
o’clock in the forenoon it became a little more calm than
usual; and 3 men took a canoe, which we got from the Indians
of a kind excellent for riding swells, and set out to go to the
point on the sea shore, to ascertain whether there were any
white people there or if they were gone.
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The NPS atlas for this night
Meglar; Camp Distress, WA
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of November 12 to November 14, 1805
NPS sites within 5 miles of this camp
- Dismal Nitch (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 1.4 mi
- Knappton Cove Heritage Center (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 2.2 mi
- Middle Village/Station Camp (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 2.2 mi
- Fort Columbia State Park (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 2.7 mi
- Columbia River Maritime Museum (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 4.5 mi
From the NPS Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas, mirrored here on September 21, 2026. This copy is not authoritative; NPS remains the system of record. About the mirror
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