It was about 11 a.m. and I had already visited four county highpoints: two in Colorado and two in Kansas, only one of which required any real hiking. Heading north into Nebraska, I was set to start picking off the counties that border Colorado, starting with Dundy County, Nebraska's southwesternmost county. I came up from the town of St. Francis in Cheyenne County, Kansas, and drove north through the town of Haigler, just inside the Nebraska line. The utter flatness of the Plains started to give way, slowly, to the undulating hills of the Sand Hills, and actually, the scenery out of St. Francis and up to Haigler was pretty nice, relatively speaking. Although the Sand Hills are mostly concentrated in west-central Nebraska, there's a swath that cuts through south Nebraska and northeast Colorado. The Dundy County highpoint is one simple dune/hill of this vast system.

From Haigler on US-34 I went west and crossed into Colorado briefly into the town of Liard, then went north along county roads PP and RR about 20-odd miles, eventually bringing me parallel to the Nebraska state line. Not much in the way of signs out here; most navigation was done by matching up curves in the road with those on the map. Finally, County Road RR met up with County Road 46 (all these county roads are Yuma County, Colorado). I turned east onto CR-46 and about a mile later entered Nebraska, marked by a hub-cap painted gold and marked "Dundy County", propped along the roadside. The road got a bit sandy very soon, and I went about another two miles as the road went east, south, east and northeast. I parked along the road southeast of the hill, which was plainly obvious and about a half-mile distant. To the west there was active tilling of the land going on and to the east there were other fields and a large garage full of farm equipment. However, this hill seemed to have its native flora, seemed undisturbed, and to me, seemed to open for hiking. So in I went.

I just went line-of-sight toward the highest point, crossing a fence about 200 feet short of the top, then onto the top itself. The hill was obviously a big pile of sand, but it was covered in a thatch of low grasses, little cactus, and various shrubs and clumps of sawgrass and related plants. The trip back was uneventful and I made the round trip in about 20 minutes, covering a mile and about 160 feet of gain. The weather was misty and cool. From here I continued back into the Colorado road net and drove north to visit the Chase County highpoint, Lamar Hill. By the way, "Dundy Hill" is just my name for this hillock. I don't know if it has a name at all; there are so many hills in this area I'm sure they don't name them all, not even the highest in the county.