
Cottonwood Spring, just after leaving the trailhead.

Continuing along the Lost Palms Oasis Trail.





Lost Palms Oasis below.

Lost Palms Oasis.


Leaving Lost Palms Oasis, headed east within the canyon.

Some rock obstacles shortly after Lost Palms Oasis.

Lost Palms Canyon continues below this first section of boulder scrambling. You can see Victory Palms below.

Flat wash after Victory Palms. Munsen Canyon heads off on the left (north) shortly.

Heading up the scramble into Munsen Canyon.

Munsen Canyon.

Approaching Summit Spring Palms Oasis.

Summit Spring Palms Oasis.

Looking back down Munsen Canyon from Summit Spring Palms Oasis.

Continuing up Munsen Canyon.



Approaching Munsen Oasis.

Munsen Oasis.


Munsen Oasis, super beautiful nestled in the canyon.


More scrambling after Munsen Oasis.

The speck of Unnamed Oasis 1 in the center.

Unnamed Oasis 1.

After leaving Unnamed Oasis 1.

Looking back toward Unnamed Oasis 1. The route heads to the right (east) after the oasis.

Approaching Unnamed Oasis 2.

Unnamed Oasis 2 has standing water.

Unnamed Oasis 2.

Continuing farther up Munsen Canyon, past Unnamed Oasis 2. The rock pinacles are absolutely massive here.

Looking back toward Unnamed Oasis 2, you can see a big natural arch on the left.

Close-up of the natural arch.

A last look at Unnamed Oasis 2 before heading farther up the canyon.

The canyon opens up into a gorgeous wash with great views of remote pinnacles in all directions.

Looking back the way I came through the spot where the canyon opens up.

Continuing up my chosen gully.

Scrambling toward my gully, looking back down the way I came.

A bunch of fun Class 3 obstacles like this.

Looking back from near the top of my chosen gully.

My gully flattened out, but still had some boulders to work through.

And finally the gully boulders went away and you have a great view of Eagle Mountain ahead, no obstacles in the way.

Looking back down the wash leading toward my Class 3 gully.

Looking back down on the way up to Eagle Mountain.

Continuing up the fairly steep slope.

Looking back from the false summit leading to Eagle Mountain.

From the false summit looking toward Eagle Mountain.

Summit of Eagle Mountain, looking down the way I came.

Summit of Eagle Mountain, looking along the ridge I'll be hiking along to start the descent.


Some minor obstacles on the way down from Eagle Mountain.

Looking back toward Eagle Mountain before starting down the descent gully.

Descent gully from Eagle Mountain.



The gully opens up to wide open desert.

Looking back toward the descent gully from Eagle Mountain.


A large area of the open desert trek has slickrock that is super fun to explore.

Small arch on the left. Once you're in open desert, head to the Cottonwood Camground to complete the loop.
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