The day started out rather nice after my night in Sterling, Colorado. The previous day I had visited eleven county highpoints and had been mostly foggy and misty, but never rainy nor threatening. But today started out blue and very pleasant. I got moving around 7 a.m. and made the short drive north through the town of Peetz to the general location of the Cheyenne County highpoint. The highpoint sits in its southwest corner area and the easiest approach was to walk some old roads up from Colorado. I eventually worked myself to a lonely county road junction of Logan (CO) County Roads 21 and 78, which put me about six-tenths of a mile south of the Nebraska state line. I parked in a pull-off north of Road 21.

From the junction an old grassy two-track led north. I started walking it, passing a tire on a post marked "No Trespassing". Hmm... the usual conundrum of what does that "sign" specifically refer to? I figured it probably meant the fields, while the road had some sort of quasi-public access. I may have been wrong but I figured I'd be okay. Anyway, I covered the 0.6 miles to a fence corner, with the east-went portion being the state line. I stayed straight, now parallelling a north-south fence, for another few hundred feet, at which time the fences forced me to go east a few more hundred feet, then north again. GPS and map reading put me just a few feet inside the Cheyenne half of the Cheyenne - Kimball County line. The high area was just a few more hundred feet north at the far edge of a cultivated field. I walked the perimeter and looked over the area. Not a whole bunch of relief but enough to make me feel good about being "there". Good enough. I walked out the same way, a round trip of about 2.2 miles in about 35 minutes. Next up: Logan County, Colorado.