Re: Bob Marshall Wilderness
[Re: JoMiBru]
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10/10/20 10:05 PM
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Rent horses! If you don’t have any, it’s a big place. Clean camp and bear pole. Bear deterrent also get in the best shape of your life and have fun and be careful large wilderness areas are not very forgiving of stupidity. NOT saying you are! But a lot of people think they know what they really don’t. If you could or have done a pack trip with an outfitter it would shorten the learning curve a huge amount. I worked as a guide/horse & mule wrangler as a young man out of Gardner Mt. Absorca Beartooth wilderness . We packed from the trail head in 21 miles to base camp then about three miles more to spike camps spread to the points of the compass. Early rifle elk and deer. If the mountains don’t kill ya and the bears leave ya alone and the stock don’t bust ya up ya could have the time of your life and make memories you will never forget. Truly wild country will humble a person.
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli
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Re: Bob Marshall Wilderness
[Re: JoMiBru]
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10/10/20 10:12 PM
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If you’re planning on walking in just know you’re not going to get away from the locals and day trippers and the fringes get hunted pretty hard. And they know the country better than anybody that doesn’t live there.
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli
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Re: Bob Marshall Wilderness
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10/10/20 10:41 PM
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Just a random thought. Grab a copy of Bugle and check with the outfitters that work the Bob maybe a drop camp would best suit your needs.
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli
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Re: Bob Marshall Wilderness
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10/10/20 11:17 PM
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Just a random thought. Grab a copy of Bugle and check with the outfitters that work the Bob maybe a drop camp would best suit your needs. My thoughts exactly. I guided in Idaho and it’s wise and money well spent to let someone else provide camp. And they’ll pack out your game. Join the Eastman’s site for drop camp guide suggestions.
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Re: Bob Marshall Wilderness
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10/11/20 12:43 PM
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Good advice aforementioned.
I have enjoyed that country from Glacier Park boundaries, down to the Scapegoat Wilderness southern end. Numerous trips from a week to two weeks duration.
One of the most cherished memories for me was deep in the interior, set up a base camp along the White River, that follows the Divide and the Wall. I would climb the western front of the Wall and hike along its ridge top for miles. The tall stands of Mtn. Hemlock are astounding ....the granite worn trials smooth as can be along that ridge by years of goats and sheep traveling it as their hi way.
Last I knew there were two airstrips in different parts of the area that are used by outfitters. A good way to get in and traveling faster than walking in from a portage point. The Spotted Bear portage , in the northern quadrant is a good place to go, rather than some others that are used more often. I have never been on the east side of the Divide in those three connected wilderness areas, only along the western side.
Arm up well and take your camera. A good trip to enjoy . Not up on the elk status in the area , but as others have mentioned, you will likely see bear.
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Re: Bob Marshall Wilderness
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10/11/20 05:51 PM
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We have cut grizz tracks on every hunt. Seen one on every hunt. Nephew shot a 150 whitetail. Dressed it and kept hunting. Came back and sow grizz with cubs stole and charged them. Guide told him to shoot at 50 feet, it turned off as he was pulling the trigger.
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Re: Bob Marshall Wilderness
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Just a random thought. Grab a copy of Bugle and check with the outfitters that work the Bob maybe a drop camp would best suit your needs. Good advice
jarentz
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Re: Bob Marshall Wilderness
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10/11/20 08:48 PM
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Sharron, I flew a Farmall Cub tractor out of the Bob in about 1992.
I have nothing clever to put here.
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