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These are pictures from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was explored by a man named John Wesley Powell. The canyon is one mile deep, five miles across, and about one thousand miles long. The canyon is be fiffteen to seventeen million years old.We were told to close our eyes before we saw the amazing landscape that stretched before us. They led us to the railing and told us to open our eyes, it was awesome!! There were many colors and pattens in the rock. At the bottom of the canyon, you could see a little, green part of the Colorado River. We were going to go raft there the next day.
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These are pictures of the hike of the South Kibab Trail. The hike was cool and the wheather was cold and warm depending on where you were in the canyon. The trail wound down the side of the canyon, if you looked down you could see the other part of the trail. The hike was about two miles, hiking down and hiking back up. Hiking down was much more fun than hiking back up.Boarding the boats on the Colorado river was just adding to the excitement of river rafting. It was the best thing about the trip! Even though everyone got wet and the water was super cold, it was still very enjoyable! All of our guides were absolutely awesome! They made the trip even better with their humorous character**//.//**These carvings on the Glen Canyon walls indicate that there was once Native Americans living there at one time. The pictures were probably three or four feet from where they are now, this means that the sediment build-up and other things have covered the land. Here is a picture of the Glen Canyon walls on the Colorado river. The scientists here can determine how old the rock is by looking at the black spots and black lines on the walls. The river walls date back millions of years ago. In an effort to preserve the banks of Glen Canyon,environmentalists planted a non-native plant Tamerisk, from Austrailia, that should have helped stop erosion, but the species was taking over the native plants and changing the environment around it so they had to burn most of it to get rid of it. This is the Navaho Bridge. Behind this dam, Glen Canyon Dam, is Lake Powell. The dam was built to create and harvest electricity. The dam also stopped the flow of silt so it would not fill up Lake Mead. About five-hundred thousand tons on silt used to flow through the Colorado River a day. The environmentalists have to create artifical flooding to help the water and the banks around the canyon.

These are pictures of the Wuokoki Ruins. The ruins were awesome!! They were made from rocks and mud, they were well preserved. We got to walk around them, it is was huge! The walls were high but there was no roof. The ruins were estimated to be thousands of years old. We saw the Wuokoki ruins instead of the Wupatki National Monument. (Sorry the picture is sideways...)

These are pictures from Sunset Crater.Sunset Crater is not a crater, it is a cinder volcano. It gets it's name from the colors of the rocks located at the top of the volcano. There is a crater at the top, we did not get to see it but our guides told us about it. The landscape is was a black mountain with plants and trees along the side. It was very cool.

Overall, the trip was very fun. We learned a lot of new and exciting things. Our favorite parts were the river rafting and the hike down the South Kibab Trail. The guides were amazing and were very nice. It was an awesome experience to share with friends and we hope we can do it again sometime.