Lewis and Clark Across the Mountains

An Engineer Tracks the Trail

This site is the work of Steve Russell, a retired Electrical Engineering professor at Iowa State University, who grew up in the Bitterroots, and who is the co-author of Across the Snowy Ranges: The Lewis and Clark Expedition in Idaho and Western Montana…

Introduction

Lolo Trail Map

Join the Corps of Discovery as they traverse the Lolo Trail in 1805

• Travel back in time 200 years.
• View the difficult mountain ranges as the explorers saw them.
• Map their actual path across the Bitter Root Mountains.
• See the actual trail traveled by the expedition.
• Visit some of their campsites.
• Experience their desperation to get through the mountains.

Read the introduction by clicking on the scroll to the left or immediately begin the journey by clicking on the map.