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Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later"
"Five Volcanoes"
Includes ... Mount Jefferson ... Mount Hood ... Mount St. Helens ... Mount Adams ... Mount Rainier ...
Image, 2004, Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens, Washington, from Blurock Landing, Washington, click to enlarge
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Mount Rainier (left) and Mount St. Helens (right), Washington, from Blurock Landing, Washington. Image taken February 11, 2004.


Five Volcanoes ...
On April 2, 1806, as Captain Clark began his journey to explore the Willamette River he wrote:

"... from the enterance of this river, I can plainly See Mt. Jefferson which is high and Covered with snow S.E. Mt. Hood East, Mt St. Helians a high humped Mountain to the East of Mt St. Helians. I also Saw the Mt. Raneer Nearly North ..." [Clark, April 2, 1806]

From Lewis's Journal:

"... from the Columbia at the entrance of the Multnomah river Mount Jefferson bears S. E. this is a noble mountain. I think equally as high as Mount St. Helines but it's distance being much greater than that of the latter, so great a portion of it dose not appear above the range of mountains which lie betwen boath those stupendious mountains and this point of view. like mount St. Heleans it's figure is a regular cone and is covered with eternal snow. M. St. Heleans from the same point boar N [blank], Mount Hood due East, and Mount Ranier nearly North. there is also a very high humped mountain a little to the East of Mount St. Heleans which appears to lie in the same chain with those conic pointed mountains before mentioned ..." [Lewis, April 6, 1806]

Visible were two peaks in Oregon -- Mount Jefferson, which Lewis and Clark had only seen and named three days earlier, and Mount Hood. Visible in Washington State were three peaks -- Mount St. Helens, the "high humped Mountain to the East of Mt St. Helians" which is Mount Adams, and further north is Mount Rainier.


From Blurock Landing ...
The mouth of the Willamette is located across from Blurock Landing, Washington. At Blurock Landing, all five volcanoes can be seen from the parking lot. In fact, throughout this entire stretch of the Columbia, all five volcanoes can be seen, including Vancouver Lake, Sauvie Island, Shillapoo Wildlife Area, and Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.

Image, 2004, Mount Jefferson, Oregon, from Blurock Landing, Washington, click to enlarge
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Mount Jefferson, Oregon, from Blurock Landing, Washington. Image taken February 11, 2004.


"... from the enterance of this river, I can plainly See Mt. Jefferson which is high and Covered with snow S.E. ..."
[Clark, November 2, 1806]
Image, 2004, Mount Hood, Oregon, from Blurock Landing, Washington, click to enlarge
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Mount Hood, Oregon, from Blurock Landing, Washington. Image taken February 11, 2004.


"... Mt. Hood East ..."
[Clark, November 2, 1806]
Image, 2004, Mount St. Helens, Washington, from Blurock Landing, Washington, click to enlarge
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Mount St. Helens, Washington, from Blurock Landing, Washington. Image taken February 11, 2004.


"... Mt St. Helians ..."
[Clark, November 2, 1806]
Image, 2004, Mount Adams, Washington, from Blurock Landing, Washington, click to enlarge
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Mount Adams, Washington, from Blurock Landing, Washington. Image taken February 11, 2004.


"... a high humped Mountain to the East of Mt St. Helians ..."
[Clark, November 2, 1806]
Image, 2004, Mount Rainier, Washington, from Blurock Landing, Washington, click to enlarge
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Mount Rainier, Washington, from Blurock Landing, Washington. The flank of Mount St. Helens is just visible on the right. Image taken February 11, 2004.


"... I also Saw the Mt. Raneer Nearly North ..."
[Clark, November 2, 1806]


From Vancouver Lake ...

Image, 2004, Vancouver Lake, Washington, and Mount Adams, Washington, click to enlarge
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Vancouver Lake, Washington, and Mount Adams, Washington. Image taken February 11, 2004.
Image, 2004, Vancouver Lake, Washington, and Mount Rainier, Washington, click to enlarge
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Vancouver Lake, Washington, and Mount Rainier, Washington. Image taken February 11, 2004.
Image, 2004, Vancouver Lake, Washington, and Mount St. Helens, Washington, click to enlarge
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Vancouver Lake, Washington, and Mount St. Helens, Washington. Image taken February 11, 2004.
Image, 2004, Vancouver Lake, Washington, and Mount Hood, Oregon, click to enlarge
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Vancouver Lake, Washington, and Mount Hood, Oregon. Image taken February 11, 2004.
Image, 2004, Vancouver Lake, Washington, and Mount Jefferson, Oregon, click to enlarge
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Vancouver Lake, Washington, and Mount Jefferson, Oregon. Image taken February 11, 2004.


From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...

Clark, ...
 




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*River Miles [RM] are approximate, in statute miles, and were determined from USGS topo maps, obtained from NOAA nautical charts, or obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Website, 2003

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All Lewis and Clark quotations from Gary Moulton editions of the Lewis and Clark Journals, University of Nebraska Press, all attempts have been made to type the quotations exactly as in the Moulton editions, however typing errors introduced by this web author cannot be ruled out; location interpretation from variety of sources, including this website author.
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