
Depending on how you feel about driving, you may have to hike Cottonwood Canyon Road for a bit before reaching the trailhead.

Cottonwood Canyon Trailhead, view into the canyon. Just to my right is the start of the route to Canyon Point.

Class 2 up the drainage. I'm at the trailhead, looking west. The switchbacks are difficult to see, but start up on the left in this photo.

View back toward the trailhead and Cottonwood Canyon as we head up the Class 2 switchbacks.

Within the sandy, pleasant drainage.

View back as we make progress up the drainage.

Canyon Point comes into view.

Another shot back.

Canyon Point visible on the right. We would gain its summit by first heading to the darker-colored bump on the left.

A minor side-drainage that led to the slope and up to the ridge seen on the left. From the ridge, we'd continue to the darker-colored bump.

Looking back into the main drainage as we continue up the slope.

On the ridge heading up to the darker-colored bump.

Class 2 as we make our way up.

View back down, the drainage we came out of visible on the left.

Close-up into the drainage we came out of.

Once we reached the top of the steep section, we got this view of the route to come. Canyon Point visible top right. We would follow the ridge on the left, over the small inconvenient hump on the left.

Approaching the lump.

Past the lump, continuing along the ridge to the summit.

View back, Towne Benchmark visible top center.

Making our way up along the ridge.

View back, the drainage we approached within is visible on the left. The black hump we ascended to visible center and runs to the right.

Class 2 summit of Canyon Point.

View back from just below the summit of Canyon Point.

On the Class 2+ summit block, view into Death Valley and north toward more of the Panamint Range.

View east into the drainage, Tucki Mountain visible top.

Super fun, fast, steep descend off the east face of Canyon Point.

View back up toward Canyon Point as we made our way back into the drainage we approached in.
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