Photo: Fish Creek, just south of the Lolo Trail, courtesy Chuck Pezeshki.

The Lochsa Face appears along the Lolo trail, a traditional hunting and trade route of the Nez Perce. Lewis and Clark followed the Lolo trail through the Bitterroot Range. September 12, 1805. Clark: The road through this hilley Country is verry bad passing over hills & thro' Steep hollows, over falling timber &c. &c. continued on & passed Some most intolerable road on the Sides of the Steep Stoney mountains, which might be avoided by keeping up the Creek which is thickly covered with under groth & falling timber, Crossed a Mountain 8 miles with out water & encamped on a hill Side on the Creek after Decending a long Steep mountain, Some of our Party did not get up untill 10 oClock PM. Party and horses much fatigued.

More about the people: October 10, 1805. Clark: Their amusements appear but fiew as their Situation requires the utmost exertion to pr[o]cure food they are generally employed in that pursute, all the Summer & fall fishing for the Salmon, the winter hunting the deer on Snow Shoes in the plain and takeing care of ther emence numbers of horses, & in the Spring cross the mountains to the Missouri to get Buffalow robes and meet &c. at which time they frequent[ly] meet with their enemies & lose their horses & maney of their people. Their disorders are but fiew and those fiew of a s[c]rofelous nature. They make great use of Swetting. The hot and cold bathes, Photo: Fish Creek, just south of the Lolo Trail, courtesy Chuck Pezeshki.

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