The day was still pretty young and I'd just visited the Cheyenne County highpoint in Nebraska. I stayed on the local road net just inside Nebraska north of the Colorado line, heading west towards the jump-off point for the Logan County highpoint in Colorado. It was some nice, lonely country up here: farm fields, ranchlands and mostly wide open spaces sprinkled with wind and rain0eroded bluffs. I didn't have a good topo map with me for this hike because I simply forgot to make a copy, so I was totally dependent on John and Dave's Hiking Colorado's Summits county highpoints book. They hadn't let me down yet and I hoped my good luck streak would continue!

Using a combination of their book and my DeLorme atlas I found a road they mentioned and went south on it like I was supposed to. It quickly began to behave differently than what they said it would do. It went past a ranch home complex and some oil pumps. I realized I was where I wasn't supposed to be so I returned back to the main road. I went west another half mile and found the right road. Both roads had the same designation! Confusing as all heck. Anyway, I went south on this road and about 3 miles later stopped just past an old missile silo site. I was in high rolling pastureland with very distinct hills. Not a soul was anywhere and I had the whole place to myself. I was about 1 mile due west of the highpoints, so off I went.

I hiked mostly by reckoning east and eventually came to a fence after about a mile. Crossing that, I hiked up a couple of hills including one with a substantial cairn built on it. I searched but found no register. Figuring this was the highpoint, and seeing that John and Dave also mention this cairn, I felt pretty good I had found it correctly. Nevertheless, just to be sure, I walked the immediate area and up a couple more rises. Then, on the way back I made sure to always go up whenever possible. I figured I hit all the likeliest areas. The walk back went fast, aided by the missile silo towers off in the distance. The total walk covered a bit over 2 miles and took about 40 minutes in fine, pleasant weather.