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Before I could climb the Five Summits, I had to get to them. It took me two days of travel to get from my home in Oklahoma to my jump-off point in North Dakota. I spent that first day driving across Kansas and Nebraska. My first stop was Niobria State Park, on the northern border of Nebraska. Rain followed me all the way north. The next rainy night was in an RV park in Dickinson, North Dakota. |
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I was all alone climbing the chalky heights. I could hear cows grazing on the fields below. When I got to this point, I thought I had made it, but this was in fact a "false summit." The true summit was a couple dozen yards beyond this short rise. |
The highest point in Nebraska, like the highpoint of North Dakota, is on private property. The owner of this property happens to raise buffalo on the land. I totally did not expect to drive through a herd of buffalo that day. | ![]() |