Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
She had a horse, a few knives, some hides, and limited food supplies.
She turned west.
Into The Blue Mountains In January
The Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon and Washington are not a gentle landscape in January.
They are a series of ridges and valleys formed by ancient volcanic activity and subsequent geological processes, rising from the high desert of the Snake River plain to elevations that bring significant snowfall every winter.
The mountains stretch roughly from the Oregon-Idaho border in the southeast to the Columbia River valley in the northwest.
Crossing them in summer is demanding.
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