That "Chinese Wall" looks absolutely insane... I have no idea how I've never heard of it!

I have a story about #2. On a trip into the Absorokas I was camping in a high meadow one pitch black night alone. At the other end of the meadow I spotted with my light a large herd of elk. As I watched them ,something, perhaps me, spooked them and they started to stampede. I shut my light off and listened as they made a circuit, then I realized they were coming straight toward me. I knelt, and just when I thought I'd be trampled I lit myself up, the herd parted like the red sea and thundered past. Some of the bulls with giant racks must have leapt 20 feet. The sound of their hooves and the shaking of the ground impressed me most. Really the coolest wilderness experience I've had.

As a native of the eastern US, traveling through the West was a surreal experience, it’s otherworldly in its magnitude and starkness, almost like a different planet.

As an Idahoan, it’s very cool to know we have so much wilderness here. I’ve always known this, but it’s still so cool to see it detailed. Idaho is truly so beautiful and vast!

I appreciate "difficulty of terrain" being used as a criteria for this, I think there's a temptation to just look for places that are most distant from roads and habitation, but complex terrain like the canyon country of the southwest significantly increases how remote a places subjectively feels, over and above how far it may be in a straight line distance from civilization

Visited the northern part of Minnesota for my first time and I could not believe how remote it was. Miles and miles of trees and packs of Wolves howling around the cabins we stayed in. Incredible experience

fun fact - the United States still has one "Primitive Area" in existence, the Blue Range Primitive Area in Eastern Arizona. There is two roads that take you into the Blue, but once you explore off of either roadway it's essentially wilderness immediately. A small community still live down on the Blue, maybe 30 people max?

My wife and I and a good friend and his wife packed into the “BOB” on horseback for 17 days. We didn’t miss civilization, it was a very spiritual experience. The horses had plenty of grass to eat and we fished out of the lakes and streams and eat hearty. We have packed into the Selway-Bitteroot weilderness, have been in the Frank Church, but the wildest area is the time we paced into the Cabinet Wilderness in northwest Montana. Didn’t see another human for days. But the “BOB”, is my absolute favorite.