Snow Headed Our Way

8 Miles Today;  I haven't walked yet but planning on doing eight miles as soon as the rain lets up.  It's supposed to snow later in the day.   What ever the situation I have the right clothing for the job.....After my walk today, Forrest's virtual journey will put him at the same location the The Lewis & Clark Expedition and "The Corps of Discovery" camped on that day so long ago ...God Bless Walk Forrest Walk  (completed walk before snow, dealt with a little COLD rain..)
Here's a  excerpt from a crew members journal
October 13, 1804 (Camped about one mile south of the North Dakota state line, Campbell County, South Dakota)
"A creek 18 miles above the Ricaras (name of a Indian tribe) I call Stone Idol Creek, this creek heads in a small lake at no great distance, near what there is a Stone to which the Indians ascribe a great virtue*. Those people have a curious tradition of those stones, one man was a man in love, one girl whose parents would not let them yet in her hand... a court martial convened this day for the trial of John Newman charged with "having uttered repeated expressions of a highly criminal and mutinous nature; the same having a tendency not only to destroy every principle of military discipline, but also to alienate the affections of the individuals composing this detachment to their officers, and disaffect them to the service for which they have been so sacredly and solemnly engaged. The prisoner plead not guilty to the charge... the court are unanimously of opinion that the prisoner John Newman is guilty.......  to be continued