North Fork Salmon River, impassable route — Patrick Gass: September 3, 1805
On a cool morning, two men were sent back with a horse to retrieve a load left behind the previous night, while the group breakfasted on their last salmon and dispatched two hunters ahead. After the men returned, the party pushed on up the creek through extremely rugged, heavily timbered mountain country dominated by spruce pine. After nine miles they stopped for a meager dinner of flour and the last of their pork, as the hunters had no luck. They traveled three more miles over a large mountain to another creek—not the one their guide intended—and camped in cold evening rain.
cool. Two men went back with a horse to bring on the load,
which had been left behind last night; and we breakfasted on
the last of our salmon and waited their return. Two hunters
were sent on ahead, and on the return of the two men, who
had been sent back, we pursued our journey up the creek,
which still continued fatiguing almost beyond description.
The country is very mountainous and thickly timbered; mostly
with spruce pine. Having gone nine miles we halted for din-
ner, which was composed of a small portion of flour we had
along and the last of our pork, which was but a trifle: — Our
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hunters had not killed any thing. We staid here about two
hours, during which time some rain fell and the weather was
extremely cold for the season. We then went on about 3
miles over a large mountain, to the head of another creek and
encamped there for the night. This was not the creek our
guide wished to have come upon; and to add to our misfor-
tunes we had a cold evening rain.
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Cool. Two men went back with a horse to bring on the load that had been left behind last night; and we had breakfast on the last of our salmon and waited for their return. Two hunters were sent on ahead, and when the two men who had been sent back returned, we continued our journey up the creek, which was still tiring almost beyond description. The country is very mountainous and thickly timbered, mostly with spruce pine. After going nine miles, we stopped for dinner, which consisted of a small portion of the flour we had with us and the last of our pork, which was only a trifle. Our hunters had not killed anything.
We stayed here about two hours, during which time some rain fell and the weather was extremely cold for the season. We then went on about 3 miles over a large mountain, to the head of another creek, and camped there for the night. This was not the creek our guide had wished to come upon; and to add to our misfortunes, we had a cold evening rain.
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