Captain Clark and a crew of 11, near the end of their long westward journey to the Pacific Ocean, hiked up the long sandy beach to a point near today's Long Beach, Washington, turned around and headed back towards Station Camp. They spent the night of November 19, 1805 on the upstream bank of the Wallacut River, which they mistakenly called the Chinook River.
"... I proceeded through over a land S E with Some Ponds to the bay distance about 2 miles, thence up to the mouth of Chinnook river 2 miles, crossed this little river in the Canoe we left at its mouth and Encamped on the upper Side in an open Sandy bottom ..." [Clark, November 19, 1805]
Clark and his men returned to Station Camp the next day, where they made their historic vote to spend the winter on the coast at Fort Clatsop, on the south side of the Columbia River.
In memory of Laurie Freeman aka geocache reviewer "Wizard of Ooze", aka geocacher Half-Canadian and Scooter the Wonder Dog. This geocache was originally placed by her for the enjoyment of the geocaching community.