Yuma Corner • Yuma County (Colorado) Highpoint

Date Climbed
May 18, 2004

Elevation
4,440 feet

Distance
No hiking

Time
few minutes

Gain
None

Conditions
Misty, cold

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The plainsy Yuma highpoint at 6 a.m.

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The day was just five hours old and I'd already bagged one highpoint, a flat nothing of a highpoint in Washington County at 1:45 a.m.! I slept for three hours in my vehicle, a Ford Escape SUV, along the highway, then awoke with the first hints of dawn. I had big plans for today, hoping to knock out as many super-easy Plains highpoints as I could as I made my way north into Nebraska and South Dakota for some real hiking opportunities. I got moving, driving along US-36 through the towns of Anton and Cope, where I left the main road and sought out the Yuma apex. Using John and Dave's Hiking Colorado's Summits book, I found it, an imperceptable rise in pastureland at a fence line near a county road. The weather was cold and drizzly. I got out of my vehicle to step on and around the 'highpoint' area. A few minutes of that and I has satisfied. Well, that was sure easy. Day was now six hours old and I had two highpoints to show for it, all involving no hiking! I rewarded myself with a two-egger brekky at a truck stop in Burlington along Interstate-70. My belly just doesn't match up to most of the patrons' bellies, I must say. Next up: Sherman County in Kansas. Woo hoo!

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