APRIL 13, 2017 // 7
Learn about grave of youngest
Lewis and Clark expeditioner
PHOTO BY DAMIAN MULINIX
Black, stormy skies produce a slight rainbow over the yellowed dune grass along the Discovery
Trail in Seaview, Wash.
Long Beach Peninsula offers
nice spring hiking options
LONG BEACH, WASH. —
Washington’s Long Beach
Peninsula boasts 28 miles of
public beach and a system
of hiking trails that cut
through forest and wetlands.
For spring hiking op-
tions, consider:
• The Coastal Forest
Loop, a 1.5-mile round-
trip that features ancient
Sitka spruce, views of the
Columbia River, and fauna
and flora, such as newts,
frogs, bald eagles, owls,
foxes, otters, huckleberries,
mushrooms and flowers.
Trail access is near
Serious Pizza and the park
office at the entrance to
Ilwaco’s Cape Disappoint-
ment State Park.
A Discovery Pass is
required for cars. Dogs on
leashes are permitted.
• The Bay Loop, a 1.1-
mile trail that offers birding
sites, scrub pine forest,
marsh grass fields and flat
terrain. A Discover Pass
is required for parking at
Leadbetter Point State Park.
• Three trails at the
PHOTO BY REBECCA SEDLAK
The short, 0.57-mile round-
trip trail at Teal Slough guides
hikers to old-growth cedars.
Willapa National Wild-
life Refuge headquarters:
the quarter-mile Art Trail,
consisting mostly of board-
walk; Cut-Throat Climb, a
fern-laden loop three-quar-
ters of a mile; and Teal
Slough, a trail one-third of a
mile with Western red cedar
and Sitka spruce trees.
The refuge headquar-
ters is near milepost 24 on
Washington State Route
101.
Teal Slough is 1.6 miles
northeast.
• Discovery Trail, an 8.5-
mile coastal path stretching
from Ilwaco to Beard’s
Hollow wetlands, through
grassy dunes to a mile north
of Long Beach, with a
forested spur to North Head
Lighthouse.
The entire trail is paved
except for a short section
on the west side of the Cape
Disappointment headlands.
Access points with free
parking are at the Port of
Ilwaco, Beard’s Hollow,
the Seaview and both Long
Beach beach approaches, as
well as the south end of the
Breakers Resort.
In Long Beach, the trail
parallels a one-half-mile
wooden boardwalk. Cyclists
share the trail, and dogs on
leashes are permitted.
FORT CLATSOP — The next
In Their Footsteps event at
Lewis and Clark Nation-
al Historical Park will be
“Identification and Preserva-
tion of Jean Baptiste Char-
bonneau’s Grave,” featuring
Michael Hanley and Roger
Wendlick, 1 p.m. Sunday,
April 23.
Jean Baptiste Charbon-
neau, the youngest member
of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition, was born Feb.
11, 1805, to Toussaint Char-
bonneau and Sacagawea.
They spent the following
winter at Fort Clatsop. After
a life of travel, Jean Baptiste
Charbonneau died May 16,
1866, at Inskip Station at the
hamlet of Danner in eastern
Oregon’s Malheur County.
Hanley, a rancher, illus-
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Jean Baptiste Charbonneau’s
grave in Eastern Oregon.
trator and author of several
books about eastern Oregon,
was instrumental in identify-
ing and preserving the grave
of Jean Baptiste Charbon-
neau in the 1960s. Wendlick
spent decades acquiring the
premier collection of liter-
ature related to the Lewis
and Clark Expedition. His
collection is now at Lewis
& Clark College in Port-
land. Both historians were
involved in the refurbishing
and rededication of the
gravesite in 2000.
This monthly Sunday
forum is sponsored by the
Lewis & Clark National
Park Association and the
park. These free programs
are held in the Netul River
Room of Fort Clatsop’s
visitor center.
For more information,
call the park at 503-861-
2471, or check out www.
nps.gov/lewi, or Lewis and
Clark National Historical
Park on Facebook.
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Clatsop County Stringband
No experience needed at Stringband dances
ASTORIA — Join the Clat-
sop County Stringband with
caller Dave Ambrose 7-10
p.m. Friday, April 14, at the
Astoria Arts and Movement
Center, 342 10th St. Cost
is $5 to $10, depending on
what you can pay.
All dances will be
taught, and no partner is
necessary.
Clatsop County String-
band members are Knox
Swanson, Larry Moore and
Gina and Hobe Kytr. Knox
and Larry are members of
the Beerman Creek String-
band. The Kytrs formerly
played in the Blue Heron
Stringband with Ann Bald-
win.