The sign at the monument says it is a 1/2 mile to the viewpoint and rated as a medium or “moderate” hike.  The day is beautiful and we are curious and decide to investigate more. Besides, a hike would be fun; so we head up the hill.

The trail disappears into a dense growth of trees and vegetation but we think it must be an easy (- “moderate” -) 1/2 mile hike to the ocean, especially with Clark’s journal entry stating the landscape as ‘low and 1/2 mile wide to the main ocean”.   Well…it might be only .5 mile but it is an uphill climb and very steep in places, making that 1/2 mile seem much longer! And must not have been the land Clark was describing!