page_title: Hinkhouse Peak
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hinkhouse Peak / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Hinkhouse Peak 7,560 ft (2,300-metre), from North Cascade highway
context_page_description: Hinkhouse Peak is a 7,560-foot mountain summit located on the shared border of Okanogan County and Chelan County in Washington state. It is part of the Okanogan Range which is a sub-range of the North Cascades Range. Hinkhouse Peak is situated on land administered by Okanogan National Forest. The nearest higher peak is Liberty Bell Mountain, 1.52 miles to the south. Hinkhouse Peak is situated north of Washington Pass, at the east end of a high ridge which connects to Cutthroat Peak. A high ridge extending southeast connects it to Constitution Crags. Most precipitation runoff from the peak drains into Early Winters Creek which is a tributary of the Methow River, but the south slope drains into a tributary of the Chelan River.
context_section_description: The peak's name honors Jimmy D. Hinkhouse (1943-1995), a Washington State mountaineer, economist with the Boeing Corporation in Seattle, and founder of One Step at a Time, a local mountaineering club/12-step substance abuse recovery program. He died of hypothermia at age 52 while climbing Mount McKinley. The USGS officially recognized the name in 2001. Prior to that the peak had several variant names such as State Crag, Towers of the Throat Gripper, Fickle Peak, and Washington Pass Peak.
caption: Hinkhouse Peak seen from Highway 20
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