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Who: Tom and Barby Nichol of Estes Park
Where: Headwaters of the Columbia River, Columbia Lake.
Best meal: The Salzburger schnitzel at Chalet Helvetia just over the Canadian border, Osoyoos.
Best deal: Soak all day for $4 in the pools at Radium Hot Springs, Kootenay National Park.
Best time to go: Visit the sites of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery along the Missouri and Columbia Rivers through next summer, when the bicentennial concludes.
Don’t leave home without: “Undaunted Courage,” by Stephen Ambrose, a brilliant account of the hazardous journey by Lewis and Clark through the Northwest.
