I’m intruiged by things with the word “Boulter” in them. Mostly because it’s my last name and it’s fairly uncommon.

I even started a website way back when, Everything Boulter to try to collect all the boulter stuff.

Not too long ago, I set up a search on eBay to email me anytime things appear with ‘Boulter’ in them. Most of the time I get the same couple of CDs where boulters appear in the liner notes, but I also see some interesting stuff occasionally.

Last week, I noticed someone was selling a UGS Quad map of ‘Boulter Peak’. Geez, I didn’t know there was a Boulter Peak! It’s apparently in Utah somewhere. I forgot to bid on it, but I emailed the seller afterwards and he agreed to send it me for $3. What a bargain. Apparently he’s a geologist and found he had two.

I got it in the mail today and found Boulter Peak (8306 ft). It’s right here, about 50 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. Now that I know where to look, I found a bunch of other interesting Boulter places in the area. There’s Boulter Summit (6080 ft), Boulter Creek, Boulter Springs and even a tiny little dot that’s labelled Boulter, but doesn’t appear to be an actual town. The whole area is old mining country.

Interesting stuff. Anne were thinking of taking a trip for a few days to Salt Lake City and now I really want to go to visit my namesake mountains. Maybe while I’m there, I can figure out who this Boulter guy was anyway.