

Hike Eagletail Arches, The Labyrinth, Southern Eagletail Mountains Wilderness Eagletail Mountains Wilderness, AZ

Peak 2681 seen far left, our last of the day.

Wrapping around to the base of Labyrinth Peak, seen center.

Labyrinth Peak left, Eagletail Arches up the slope seen center.

Eagletail Arches.

Neat series of windows.

View back the way we came once at Eagletail Arches.

Eagletail Arches.

Onward from the arches along a slope, then ledge.

View back toward the arches as we traverse a ledge.

A Class 3/3+ descent.

A shot from farther back of Labyrinth Peak. We came from the cliffs on the left, then wrapped to a chute in the center.

Main gully to the saddle on the right (not the right way). Friends seen on the correct, minor chute.

View up at the chockstone from the base of the chute.

View back down from above the chockstone.

Class 2+ chute past the chockstone.

Looking up, I saw my friends above. They zigzagged to get there.

Traversing a bit.

A short gully.

Class 4 protruding rib.

Karson climbing up the Class 4.

Close-up of the Class 4.

Onward up a short gully to a notch.

Down from the notch and then up another gully.

View back from one notch to the previous notch.

Onward to unique slabs.

Ascending the slabs via a ramp.

View back down the slab ramp.

Extremely exposed slab, but barely even a scramble.

View back at Karson on the exposed slab.

Ascending to the base of the summit cliff band. There's a Class 2+ chute to gain the summit ahead.

Class 2+ chute to the summit.

Wide shot of Eagletail Peak (right) and Peak 2681 (left). The Labyrinth is in the foreground.

Summit of Labyrinth Peak, view toward Peak 2681.

View toward Eagletail Peak, the range high point.

Descending from Labyrinth Peak.

View back toward Labyrinth Peak.

Onward around the Labyrinth.

Eagletail Peak ahead. Peak 2305 in front of it.

Heading toward Peak 2305.

View back toward Labyrinth Peak.

Ascending Class 2 to the north side of Peak 2305.

Class 3 ramp.

Class 3 move off the ramp.

View down the ramp.

Past the ramp, a ridiculously steep and sustained Class 3 slope.

At the top of the steep slope, into the notch ahead. Class 4 move out of the notch.

Coming down from the notch via a short rotten ramp. You can see Matt stepping across the chasm.

Shawn stepping across the chasm.

View back toward the step-across chasm.

Past the chasm, we took the steep ramp/slope seen left.

Class 2/3 up this ramp/slope to the summit.

Peak 2305 summit, view toward the Labyrinth and Peak 2681 (right).

Close-up toward The Labyrinth.

Peak 2305 summit, view toward Eagletail Peak.

We backtracked to the mouth of Labyrinth Canyon.

Some cool features amongst the pinnacles.

But also very brushy.

Super brushy.

View back down Labyrinth Canyon.

We chose to escape the brush and use a Class 4 drainage with some fun dryfalls.

View down our drainage.

Some flowing water.

Above Labyrinth Canyon, view back into it.

Starting up the west ridge of Peak 2681.

View back down to the head of Labyrinth Canyon. You can see Labyrinth Peak poking out top center, too.

Some light Class 3 on the way up Peak 2681.

Summit of Peak 2681 ahead. You can see our descent drainage on the left.

Peak 2681 summit, view toward Eagletail Peak. You can see Peak 2305 on the right.

Close-up toward some reservoir in the Labyrinth.

Descending our drainage choice.

On the way, a view over toward Labyrinth Peak and its western saddle.

A pleasant desert walk back to the trailhead.
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