Chinese Wall

In July 2010 I went with Erich for a hike to the Chinese Wall in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. The Chinese Wall is a thousand-foot-high scarp of limestone; it stretches unbroken for a dozen miles. This Wall is the most dramatic manifestation of the Continental Divide between Mexico and the Arctic Ocean. When I read a description about the Chinese Wall I knew that I want to go there to see this awesome impressive Wall.
Our experience started when we left Missoula with two heavy backpacks filled with a tent, sleeping pad, sleeping bag, food for 4 days and 2 people, cloth, water, a water filter, wine, a cooking stove and pods. After a 3 hour drive to the Sun River Trailhead was the first part. We spend a night there and in the next morning we started with our hike. The first day we hiked 11 miles and I was just so tired that I fall asleep soon. The landscape, mountains, rivers and hills were amazing and the feeling of freedom was everywhere around me.
We met 3 people the whole day, so we could enjoy a breath the nature … After a good meal in the evening we went to look for a good place for our bear bag. On our second day we went for another 9 miles uphill and we got to see the Chinese Wall after 6 miles for the first time. At this point my legs were tired and I was so tired that I couldn’t even enjoy the few. After a little break we went further to Cliff Mountain. The whole way I thought that the wall has to be around the next corner. I could see the mountains and I knew the wall has to be in front of me, but the forest got thicker and thicker, the trees higher and I got more disappointed and tired. When I reached the highest point at Cliff Mountain and I could see the whole wall in front of me all the power and energy came back and I was able to climb up higher to enjoy this amazing view. We made it, reached our destination and I was the happiest person on earth.
The whole 4 days we hiked 40 miles in total, we had 4 days, we were tired, happy and proud ...
Everyone who is in Montana right now should to this hike. It was the most amazing hike I ever did in my life.
For the first time I had the feeling that to me, real mountain wilderness has to be deep, vast, and soaked in at least the feeling that few or no other people have ever been where you are. The nature can be itself in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the wildlife can live how they suppose to live and people are careful and respectful when they enter the “grizzly bear country”.

Chinese Wall