Since we were about an hour’s drive to the Nevada state highpoint, we decided to take an extra day to climb Boundary Peak.. At 13, 147′ and classified as an easy, but long Class 1 trail, we decided it was a no-brainer. When we got to the trailhead and read the trail register we were a bit disappointed as many of the comments noted how horrible the scree was, how people aborted the trip because it was too hard and how it took over 5 hours to get to the summit – so much for an easy day! Well, it turned out not to be the case – the scree was highly overrated, the trail was steep but not too long and another bluebird day greeted us at the summit.

In the background reading I had done on the area it was mentioned that a herd of wild horses lived in the Fish Lake Valley which is at the base of Boundary Peak. How cool would it be to see a herd of wild horses? Unfortunately, upon reading in the local newspaper we found that the BLM had conducted a “drought” gather and removed approximately 150 of the 228 horses two weeks before. Of course the fate of those removed horses is always a big mystery as rumors range from that of the ranchers that lease the BLM land dictating the roundups as the horses interfere with their cattle to the BLM housing and feeding the horses until they are adopted to the horses being sold off en masse to brokers that send then to slaughter. I guess unless one was there to watch the roundup and follow the horses it will always be speculative, at best…