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__//**By: Pablo Arana and Michael Blandeburgo**//__ __//**Grand Canyon Hike:**//__ The grand canyon was a huge and beautiful canyon with a lot of geological history. When we visited the canyon we enjoyed its view by hiking 1.5 miles down it on the South Kalibab trail. The canyon is 1,700 miles long and also used to be one big rock that eroded into what it is now. It also used to be a ocean and a mountain range. It holds many squirls and used to hold many ground sloths. The river that goes threw most of the canyon is the Colorodo River along with many others. Honestly we thought that this canyon was one of the most amazing things we've ever seen. __//**River Trip on Colorodo River at Glen Canyon:**//__ A red rocked hallway structured canyon with cool and clear water. We were on a motor boat on the Colorodo River in the Glen Canyon as were getting info from a tour guid. Then we swam in the freezing cold water, then continued the tour. The river helped carve this mighty canyon. The Colorodo River along with many others flow throught this canyon. John Wesly Powell was the first to explore and map the canyon from the canyon and the river. He also named various rocks after what they resembled. These red rock walls surrounded us throughtout the whole tour. The walls doubled in size from the beggining to the end. There are many birds that lived down here and many trees (some were harmful). __//**Wupatki National Monument:**//__ It was a Wupatki Indian ruins of a small village. We walked around looking at the ruins and air hole as our tour explained what we were looking at. They lived near an active volcano which one day erupted whiping out most of their population. They made their houses out of the few resources they had such as rock. It was a major trade center. We believe this because there were many birds and animals from forieghn lands that roamed this village. They also had a air hole that provided them with water on a good day. To top it off they had a conversation circle where they had their meetings and maybe ate their meals? We thought that it was a very interesting and unique place to visit. __//**Sunset Crater:**//__ It was like a black hill because of lava from the past. We walked close to it, got our facts but time prevented us from hiking the trail. It is black due to the cooled lava from the past. It is not really a crater but a doorment volcano. It was a cylinder-cone volcano. The last time it eropted was over a centry ago. The wildlife in it was only insects and some rodents but had really healthy trees by it due to its rich soil. From the little amount of time that we viewed this volcano we thought it was surprising because it was the only volcano we've ever seen in real life.