Southwest Montana’s Northern Most Point
by Rick & Susie Graetz
This photo was taken from the summit of 8,873′ Pentagon Mountain on the Continental Divide and the northern tip of Lewis & Clark County; hence, it is the territory’s northernmost reach! And it is deep in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.
The view north from Pentagon shows typical overthrust geology: a sheer east face and a “gentler” west slope. Water pouring off Pentagon’s north side heads west of the Continental Divide and helps form the Flathead’s Middle Fork. The two drainages in this image lead to the beginning flow of the Middle Fork.
Snowmelt and rain falling on Pentagon’s south face makes its way to the North Fork of the Sun River on the east side of the Continental Divide and eventually to the Missouri River.
