Barney Metz, Adam H. and I did this highpoint a day after exhausting ourselves on Idaho's Borah Peak. I was still pretty sore and really was not up for a long hike, and this peak worked perfectly as a pretty decent 4-wheel drive road leads pretty much right to the highpoint. Our walking for this highpoint was minimal. Bull Mountain tops the Raft River Range in western Box Elder county, just south of the Utah-Idaho state line. After our Borah hike, we drove about 160 miles to the town of Burley, where we had burgers at a Perkins restaurant, then drove south through Oakley to the City of Rocks State Park, where we camped for the evening. The City of Rocks is an area dominated by huge granite slabs and is very pretty, although we arrived after dark. I slept in my rental car, and not very well... it was still pretty hot even after midnight. I got maybe 4 hours of good sleep. Oh well.

Early the next morning I followed Barney's big red truck as we made our way across lonely valleys and lonely roads, following a dirt-road net to the community of Yost, just inside Utah, and well away from civilization. In Utah, that can be a scary thing! But the only activity we saw in town were dogs barking at us. I continued to follow Barney as we drove up into the range, until it got a bit steep for my car. I parked at a pullout and rode with Adam and Barn. Barn drove, Adam was navigator, and I was ballast. I didn't mind. It was about 10 miles of driving up sometimes steep road to get to the highpoint, which we did about 9 a.m. The top of this mountain is so broad it's hard to really tell the highest point. Two areas enclosed in 9,920-foot contours are about a mile apart atop the summit plateau. The easternmost is considered the actual highpoint, with previous vistors sighting between the two points. We spent a few minutes among the rocks up here, then started our drive out.

On the way out we stopped at the western point, where Benchmark "Dunn" sits encased in numerous rocks and a wooden triangulation apparatus. I could make out the actual benchmark by peering through the rocks. I had no interest to reach in and possibly bother spider or snake-like animals living therein. So, whatever point is the highpoint, we visited them both. The drive out went quick and was very enjoyable, especially since I didn't have to do a durn thing except enjoy the scenery. The road itself is probably passable by most 2-wheel drive vehicles with good power; a small passenger car might have some trouble with some washouts and rocks we came upon.

Once back to my car, I bid Adam and Barney adieu. They were both heading back north for a nearby peak, while I wanted to get started heading east and back down into the built-up parts of Utah. Truthfully, after two nights of sleeping in my rental car and a long exhausting day on Borah, all I wanted to do was find a hotel to clean up and crash in. I drove to Logan where I stayed at a Comfort Inn. I got my room at noon! I pretty much just napped, watched tube and did some shopping in town. Being a Sunday and being in Utah, nothing was open that wasn't dealing in basic commodities. I found a grocery for my food needs and a book shop, and that was fine by me. The next morning I drove up US-89 into Logan Canyon to hike Naomi Peak in Cache county, not too far from where I drove when I hiked Bridger Peak in Rich county two days earlier.