A Few Miles West Lolo Pass, A View Looking West & Down Along US-12.
…On Facebook, Lyndon DeJong’s Post, January 18, 2024 =>
[A view of] Lolo Pass last summer. I've rode it 4 times west bound and 2 times east bound! Going again next summer!

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MY SOURCES OF LEWIS & CLARK HISTORIC LOLO TRAIL INFORMATION, That Were Placed On The Previous Photo’s Topozone Map.
…Below are the steps I used, for approximate placement of the Red Dots (& Double Dots) onto the /\ Above-Mentioned/\ Topo Map => These placements were found by =>
…IF YOU HAPPEN TO => Google … Lewis & Clark Expedition… . and bring up practically any of the National Park Service’s (NPS) Pages, you will find =>. For Example => This Lolo Pass Visitor Information Center Page, will be a good place to start. ***ATTENTION; It will be easiest to look at the NPS Map, and do the BELOW Steps 2) thru 12) => if you have a Second Computer Screen available (Such as a Cell Phone) showing the words of Steps 1) thru 12), You See Below. *** …Click Here.= … THEN AFTER This NPS Page Comes Up => Continue Doing The Below Steps 1) thru 12) =>
…1) On this NPS Page that just came up, scroll down 10 inches, where you will find a map BELOW the words => “Lewis and Clark NHT Visitor Centers and Museums”.
…2) Click on ‘Full Screen” (on map upper right corner) and Zoom-In until you can see the Eastern Border of Idaho.
…3) You will see many Black Disks With White (h) => Mouse hover successively on these until you find the one that says => “Colt Killed Creek Campsite”.
…4) Remember this disk, and keep it center screen => While you Zoom-In until you can see => Yellow US-12 between a Upper And Lower Green Routes.
…5) ClickDrag map, until Black Disk With White (h) that says => “Packer Meadow” is upper right. .
…6) In looking at these Green Routes => It takes a long time to discern (from the lighter & darker map shading) where the valley stream bottom lines are, as distinct from the ridge top lines. But after a while, you will see that the NPS Map Green Travel Lines, at most places, run exactly along ridge top lines. I would have thought that along streams would be more easily travelled, but not so in this area.
…7) Now the Upper And Lower Green Routes on your screen, show how I was able to successively estimate, where to place Red Dots (& Double Dots) onto /\ Above /\ Topo Map”.
…8) However, if you look closely, you will see that my Red Dots (& Double Dots) On The /\ Above /\ Topo Map, have a somewhat different relative placement, compared to the NPS Map. This is partly due to error on my part, and also partly due to the NPS Map (or Topo Map) being unclear. (Altogether, I wish I had time to do a better job.)
…9) As is also mostly seen in the NPS Map, The Green Travel Lines are along of Ridge Top Lines. And as you can see, I have likewise placed these Red Dots, along corresponding Ridge Top Lines. And in many places this is ALSO along a somewhat darker solid black line, which means a road. This is a good result, as will be explained in 11) below. (Similarly for dotted line cases, which means a known trail.)
…11) To be able to make an accurate map of exactly where Lewis and Clark actually travelled, would require deep expert study of their Journals & Sketched Maps. And of course, research. But there is every reason to think the NPS Map is fairly accurate, because, from my limited study => I can see how the NPS Map Upper (June 1805) Green Travel Line, very closely “fits” => the Satellite Views showing Forest Road 500 (which is also the Lolo Motorway).
…..12) This Above-mentioned “closely “fits”, is almost a guarantee since =>.We can be relatively certain that “The Lolo Motorway”, follows on (or close to for the most part) the Original Road by Native American Nimiipuu Tribes (the Nez Perce Tribes),.from the Lolo Region to the grass covered lowlands of Buffalo Country. This Trail, now also designated ”The Nee Mee Poo National Historic Trail” (Nimiipuu Trail), remains accurately known, because, through all the centuries, it was functional and thus would be used and reused, continuously keeping it physically stamped on the landscape, and marked in living memory, generation to generation, of where it was exactly located, for use again.
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