Dec. 7, 1805 - Fort Clatsop National Memorial, (Lewis and Clark Trail Site #80), Oregon. The winter camp was established. Dec. 9, 1805 - Near modern Seaside, Oregon, (Lewis and Clark Trail Site #81) a saltmaking cairn was established. Gass wrote that they 'found the ocean 7 mi. from camp, hunters killed an elk & saw 50 more.'