"we met a part of the Flathead nation of 33 lodges about 80 men 400 Total and at least 500 horses, those people recved us friendly, threw white robes over our Sholders & Smoked in the pipes of the peace,  we encamped with them & found them friendly... I was the first white man who ever wer on the waters of this river"  Captain Clark

Camped a few miles north of Sula, Montana and learned of the Lolo Trail going west across the Bitterroot Mountains.