Hike Winters Peak Death Valley National Park, CA

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Mar 20, 2021 — Winters Peak is best accessed via Echo Canyon Road, passable by mid-clearance, and overall a pretty fun road to drive on. It winds back and forth and has short sections of pretty narrows. I parked at an old sign and headed up the major drainage leading north. I followed the drainage to its head, the entire way hiking on easy gravel. The route got a bit more steep when ascended to the ridge above the drainage. I followed the ridge west to the summit of Winters Peak. The views into Death Valley are nice, but the hike is overall pretty boring.

PEAKS ON HIKE
Elevation (ft) / Prominence (ft)

Peaks on hike

Elevation

Prominence

Winters Peak

5033 ft

1193 rise

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I parked just off Echo Canyon Road and headed up the major wash in the center of this photo.

Headed up the wide wash.

View back the way I came. The wash is steeper than it seems.

A false summit of Winters Peak is visible top left.

Continuing up the wash to its head, the ridgeline.

On the ridgeline, view back into the wash I ascended from.

Finally, a view into Death Valley, north.

Ascending along the ridge, going west.

View back, I came up from the drainage on the right.

Winters Peak ahead.

Winters Peak summit, view back the way I came.

Winters Peak summit, view west toward Zabriskie Point.

Winters Peak, view toward the wash I came up. Schwaub Peak visible top center.

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