Hiking the Bob Marshall Country (FalconGuide) [Paperback]

Erik Molvar (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1994

Entire mountain ranges of wild country in Montana's northern Rocky Mountains offer an unsurpassed wilderness experience. The Trail Guide to Bob Marshall Country, written by veteran guidebook author Eric Molvar, describes trails through country where you can travel weeks without crossing your own tracks. Discover the vastness and beauty of the Bob Marshall, Great Bear, and Scapegoat wilderness areas-the last great remnants of primeval North America. The Bob Marshall wilderness complex has trails that provide hiking opportunities and challenges for visitors with a wide range of abilities and skills, from easier day hikes to strenuous multi-day backpack trips. The text includes mile-by-mile descriptions, easy-to-follow maps, elevation charts, and much more. The Trail Guide to Bob Marshall Country is organized to help you plan your trips, including an index to all the USGS topographic maps you will need, as well as tips on no-trace camping and wilderness safety techniques. The Trail Guide to Bob Marshall Country is the only comprehensive guidebook to this vast area, making it an indispensable part of your next trip into Montana's backcountry.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Completely revised and expanded for 2001 and beyond, this 2nd edition of Erik Molvar's definitive 1994 title encompasses more than 100 hikes in the vast Montana wilderness area, including Jewel Basin and the Scapegoat and Great Bear Wilderness areas.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Erik Molvar has written more than 10 FalconGuides, including those to Glacier, Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Falcon Pr Pub Co (June 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560444037
• ISBN-13: 978-1560444039
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,801,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Veteran author and backcountry explorer Erik Molvar discovered backpacking while working on a volunteer trails crew in the North Cascades of Washington. He is the author of more than a dozen FalconGuides for such places as Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall Wilderness, Olympic National Park, Zion and Bryce Canyon National Park, as well as Hiking Colorado's Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read, June 14, 2000

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Serious Reader (Mississippi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hiking the Bob Marshall Country (FalconGuide) (Paperback)

If you are planning a trip to the Bob Marshall you will do yourself a great favor by purchasing this book, then wrapping it in a zip-lock bag for your journey. The book provides a comprehensive overview of every trail in the Wilderness area. It gives a succinct synopsis of each trail by describing level of difficulty, frequency of maintenance, and elevation change. The book further describes the ecosystem that you are hiking thru and assists you in understanding the bio-diversity of each area. Perhaps most valuable, the book also provides a precsient review of the hazards of each seperate area--and methods of countering these hazards. These hazards include micro-organisms in the water and of course the ever-present grizzly and black Bears. Don't leave home without it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive guide to the Bob, August 15, 2007

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Edward B. Cogswell (Great Falls, Montana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hiking Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness (Paperback)

Erik Molvar has written numerous hiking guides for Falcon; this one is probably his magnum opus. Comprehensive and thoroughly researched, it's replete with natural history notes as well as hike descriptions and directions to trailheads.

The sheer size of the Bob Marshall Complex presents a particular challenge to a would-be author of a hiking guide, namely, how to encompass its breadth without making every hike a hundred miles in length. Molvar's solution is to segregate particular sections of trail into hikes whose starting and ending points lie conveniently at or near the junctions of other trails, which he in turn describes in other hikes. You can thus piece them together to create trips of your own design. He also includes side trips (such as to summits in the interior) and numerous day hikes along the margins and boundaries of the Bob.

Appendices include segmented mileages of trunk trails that provide access to more remote portions of the wilderness (I appreciate the meticulous mileage notes throughout the book), and descriptions of several classic extended trips such as Spotted Bear to Benchmark and Benchmark to Holland Lake. Also covered are hikes in adjoining roadless areas (such as the Rocky Mountain Front and Jewel Basin) that lie outside the wilderness proper.

Molvar has seemingly tromped every mile of the places he describes. Buy this book and follow in his footsteps.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you are going to The Bob..., February 1, 2007

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Aharon S. Weidner (Southwest Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hiking Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness (Paperback)

If you really want to know about trails in The Bob Marshall Wilderness area this is covers the most important trails. The hike descriptions and profiles are quite helpful in planning a trek. I have used this book a few times although it is a bit heavy to carry on the trail. Use it to plan and take a copy of the hikes needed to cover your trek.