Chinese Wall, Montana

[Jim Logajan]

Anyone ever flown along Chinese Wall, Montana?

Came across this video and did a little research locating it on a map:

http://vimeo.com/56388260

Not sure if they were entirely legal (2k agl, cause the area appears to be national park), but sure looks like someplace I should check out someday.

 

[Jim Logajan]

It's legal.

I just assumed that anything that looks that fun can't be legal.

Nice video
I've flown along it quite a few times, it's a pretty cool spot, as is the rest of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex that surrounds it. The wilderness (not a national park) combined with the roadless area surrounding the wilderness totals almost 4,000 square miles, so it's a pretty large area. It is only "requested" that one maintains 2,000 AGL.

Nice photos!

To save some searching effort for the curious, Salt Mountain in Montana is along the escarpment and may be easier to locate on some maps (or not.) The escarpment seems to include Haystack Mountain near the south end to Larch Hill at the north. Google Terrain map:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Chin...05,0.198269&t=p&gl=us&hnear=Chinese+Wall&z=12

 

[Jim Logajan]

Came across this video and did a little research locating it on a map:

http://vimeo.com/56388260

Vimeo (for me, anyway) suddenly seems to have some issues loading that video page; fortunately the same video is on Youtube:

The first time I flew by the Chinese Wall, I must have hit the altitude just right because it looked just like the Great Wall of China winding through the middle of the Rockies. On the sectional it is the ridge that has "Continental Divide" typed over it. Just to the North along the river out of Spotted Bear (8U4), is another cool rock formation called Gunsight. If you fly the right altitude, it is obvious how it got its name.

Nice photos! It took me a while longer than I expected to locate the escarpment on a sectional by trying to cross-check against a USGS survey map that showed its location by name. I should have noted a latitude/longitude point on the escarpment on the survey and locate it on the sectional, but I thought it wouldn't be that hard to locate by comparison with surrounding landmarks.