Room+12A

Room 12A- Adam Contrades and Andrew Belleau

Welcome to the Wiki -This wiki is for our Grand Canyon photo journal

Picture of the Grand Canyon from Oh Ah Point

Picture of the Grand Canyon from on the South Kaibab Trail

Why you should go see the South Kaibab Trail

This trail goes on like a high way. It has awesome views and a must see for tourits. It is a good loop hike were you can come back to the same spot you started at but on a different trail. The trail was made by nature and in the 1900s park service group. This spectaclur site is a good way to relax, enjoy views, and exercise at the same time.

On the first day of our trip, we hiked down into the insane Grand Canyon. The Canyon is a vast trench in the Earth’s crust, about a mile deep. Before we got there however, we had to ride in a bus for six hours! The guide told us many interesting things like how at one section there is no vegetion because there is TOO much water believe it or not. hte water just drowns the plants. Each aspin tree doesn't have its own root. Instead there root system is all connected. The aspin trees also have "Aspin Eyes", which are limbs, that rarely grow on aspin trees, that have fallen off and now look somwhat like eyes.

The South Kaibab Trail is the only trail that follows a ridge not a canyon.We hiked into it on the South Kiabab Trail for about 1 1/2 of a mile. It was 3/4 mile down and another 3/4 mile up. Our guide showed us several interesting things and helped expand our knowledge of the Canyon. It took 15-17 million years to from the GRAND CANYON. Believe it or not, the Grand Canyon was once underwater. There is proof in the Rocks. Fossilized sea sponges and old bits of shells are imbedded in the canyon walls. The hike was ovferall really fun. The best part was we got to Oh Ah Point. There was some pretty good pictures at Oh Ah Point. Before we got to hike down however, we petted the mules a few feet wher we got off the bus from the visitors center.

Picture from Oh Ah Point

River Trip Before we got there we had to go through a long tunnel that was about two miles long that pretty much went through the walls of the Glen Canyon. The River was incredible but very cold. We got off our boats at one point to look at some hieroglyphics on the walls. The artificial lake, protected by homeland security and home to the government’s national dam bureau. The dam is an amazing 700 feet tall!!! Although you can only see 500 feet of it, the rest is still there, embedded in the rock below it. The dam and river were quite the impressive place. We went through a two mile tunnel deep inside the rock on a bus to get down to the Colorado River. We also saw Lee's Ferry. Lees Ferry was a ferry service from one side of the Colorado River to the other side.

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The ferry that Lee used.

Navajo Bridge we crossed over on the ride to Cameron

Wupatki National Monument

After the awsome river trip and a few wet people, we headed into a nice little place called Cameron for lunch. We stayed their for an hour and wen go back on the bus and headed fo Wupatki National Monument.



Wupatki Backround

800 years ago Wupatki was one of the largest pueblos. It was used for many years and was a great meeting room. This is one of the hottest places with little food, comfort, and water. the question is... Why do people live here? The answer is that it was a very easy site for building and the indians could not go far from that because of the distance and the religon of some.

The Wupatki National Monument

We went into Wukoki becasue the Wupatki pueblo, had another school group in it already. The word Wukoki means "long house cut in two". Then the word Wupatki means "Mother House". The Anazazi/Ancestral Puebllions/Hotsosinim lived there. The ruins were a house/observataory was owned by an Anasazi tribe. The new term fro Anasazi is Hotsosinim, because Anasazi means "Acient enemy," so the tribe probably didn't call themselves Anasazi.

Picture of Wukoki

Sunset Crater backround

Sunset Crater was a serius of volcanic eruptions between 1040 and 1100. The varius explosions affected the lives of people that lived near. There is a cinder dome on top of the volcano and many volcanic rocks. It changed the life and religon of people who saw Sunset Crater explode. Many people left because they thought it was going to explode again but it didn't.

Sunset Crater National Monument

After all that fun,it was time to go see our last stop. Sunset Crater! One very surprising fact is that Sunset Crater is not a crater at all. It has a small crater at the top. Sunset Crater erupted in 1064 A.D. The ash and soot flew as far as 2,000 miles. Sunset Crater is a Cinder Cone and is believedd to be dorment, which basically means "sleeping". The lichen on the rocks takes about 50 years to grow about a thumbs length. The lichen drinks water and pees acid onto the rocks which break down the rocks. We also got to see part of the Ice Cave. The Ice Cave is a cave with a little bit of ice that you could stand on

The Ice Cave with its Ice Rock

Then we hopped on the bus. The only stop we made was for dinner then it was a non-stop trip back to Tuscon. Thanks for reading this Wiki. We hope that you learned a lot from this page. :)