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 A Nez Perce Indian lady relates her family's remembrances of encountering the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Guests transfer from the ship docked in Clarkston, WA to two jetboats

Hell's Canyon
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Our jetboat is powered by THREE diesel engines ° Traveling up the Snake River

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-Fast enough to clear the rocks in the rapids

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Rapid cooling of volcanic rock causes vertical pattern ° Bird nests(?) ° Wild(?) horses

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"Pit stop" at the Nez Perce Crossing, National Recreation Area, 40 miles up the Snake River

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Farther up the Snake we encounted some big horn sheep

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Eighty miles up the Snake we stoped for a very nice lunch at the Hodgepodge Lodge
Upon returning downstream, we saw two six-foot long sturgeons being caught!