Bob Marshall Wilderness is true wilderness (no roads). Pick aerial/ridge views (Chinese Wall) rather than trail-mile interior
— — a thousand feet of limestone, twenty-two miles long.
Not only on a wall.
“A 22-mile escarpment of grey Madison limestone running along the Continental Divide inside the Bob Marshall Wilderness. The cliffs rise close to a thousand feet above the meadows of the South Fork drainage, and on the long days of June the west face holds the light well after the basin below has gone cold. There are no roads anywhere in the Bob. The Wall is reached on foot or by horse across high passes, and the view that finds its way into photographs is almost always from the ridge. — from the studio
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The Bob Marshall Wilderness covers just over one million acres along the Continental Divide in north-central Montana, inside the Flathead and Lewis and Clark national forests. Together with the adjacent Great Bear and Scapegoat wildernesses it forms the 1.5-million-acre Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, one of the largest contiguous roadless areas in the lower 48. The Chinese Wall, a Madison limestone escarpment, runs roughly 22 miles along the Divide near the wilderness's eastern boundary. Travel inside the Bob is on foot or by horse only. The area was designated wilderness in 1964 under the original Wilderness Act and named for forester Bob Marshall.
The Chinese Wall is the front of a Mississippian-age Madison limestone bed turned almost on edge by the Lewis Overthrust, the same fault system that exposes the long cliffs of Glacier National Park to the north. The face stands close to a thousand feet above the upper South Fork meadows for most of its length. To the east the rock dives under younger sediments of the Rocky Mountain Front; to the west the wilderness drops away into deep conifer drainages. Larch Hill Pass and Cliff Mountain mark the southern and northern ends of the most photographed reach.
The Bob is core grizzly habitat and the area is managed for solitude as well as ecology. The Forest Service estimates round-trip travel to the Chinese Wall from the Benchmark or Gibson Reservoir trailheads at roughly 50 to 60 miles, typically a five- to seven-day pack trip. Outfitters in Augusta and Choteau run guided strings to camps along the South Fork and Sun River drainages. Snow lingers on the upper passes into July, and weather along the Divide turns quickly. The dominant sounds are wind on the Wall, water in the headwaters meadows, and the bugles of bull elk in September.