Fort Clatsop, Astoria, OR Enduring rain, hail, and snow, the men chink holes between logs, build chimneys, but have difficulty making planks to cover the cabins. Many are smoking elk meat to make jerky.
Difficulties Staying Dry
Rainy Day at Netul Landing
© 11 November 2008 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
The trees which our men have fallen latterly Split verry badly into boards. The most of our Stores are wet. our Leather Lodge has become So rotten that the Smallest thing tares it into holes and it is now Scrcely Sufficent to keep off the rain off a Spot Sufficiently large for our bead.
—William Clark
Smoking Elk Meat
The mountain [Saddle Mtn.] which lies S. E of this is covered with Snow to day & we fleece all the meat and hang it up over a Small Smoke
—William Clark
Fort Clatsop Finish Work
a little Snow and hail fell last night and continues this morning. we went at chinking up our huts and Splitting plank &C.
—John Ordway
Weather Diary
Day of the Month Winds State of the Weather 17th S W. fair after rain & hail rained all last night and to day untill 9 A M when we had a Shower of hail for an hour and Cleared off.
—Meriwether Lewis[1]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has spelled out some abbreviations.
Fort Clatsop is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site is managed by the Lewis and Clark National and State Historic Parks.
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