Winch Camp is 16km from Hotel City Heart Padhar. Winch Camp is the highest settlement in Jogindernagar Valley situated at an altitude of 2400 metres. The valley is particularly known for adventure sports of Paragliding, Trekking and Mountain biking, and has options for angling, camping as well as sightseeing. On the way to Winch camp, there are forests of Rhododendron (Burans or locally known as Brah ka fool) from which people prepare sauce having medicinal properties. In the winter season, there is heavy snowfall over mountains, dipping temperatures as low as -10 degrees. At this time, tourists and locals trek up to Winch Camp to enjoy the snow. On the other side of the mountain is Headgear, the next haulage way station at an altitude of 2500 metres and is connected to Winch Camp through a 3-km long horizontal rail track. From Headgear haulage way car descends the steep hill having a large gradient up to 48 degrees. This steep hill is known as ‘Khooni Ghati’ literally ‘the killer valley’ due to its steep gradient. Next station is Katheru, further leading to terminal station of Zero Point, the base station on other side of the Barot valley.
