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By Kyle Matthies, Jake Eldridge, and Adam Kopach.

The grand canyon is an amazing view, no wonder it is one of the 7 natural wonders of the world.This beautiful canyon is an astonishing 1.8 billion years in the making! In 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt visited the grand canyon. He stated that the canyon must always stay the same. Since then we have created Grand Canyon National Park. The park stops people from harming the canyon, but heartily encourages tourism. When we visited the canyon we to a three mile hike down the canyon but that was no were near the bottom. We took the trail South Kaibab and it was amazing, also a lot of fun. At the top it was a fantastic view and I couldn't stop staring. The middle of the rock on the canyon is limstone and at the bottom is were you can find the Colorado river.



Glen Canyon Dam marks the beginning of Glen Canyon and the beginning of our raft trip. We got to see fly fishers and many landmarks. One land mark was horeshoe bend. Horeshoe bend was a small U like formation in the canyon. We saw a giant sand dune in which one of the orginal mappers climbed on John Powell's second expedition down the Colorado river. Glen Canyon is short compared to the Grand Canyon but they have two things in common, the both meet at Harper's ferry and they both look spectacular.

The main attraction in wupatki national park is this 100 room house. This house was built by natives around the age of 14. Next to the house is a meeting area. This area was built to have echos so every one could be heard. Also, there is a small sports arena that is similar shaped to the meeting area. Next to the arena is a "blowhole" from the Earth. The "blowhole" feels just like modern air conditioning but better.This was also a trading post for miles around, even macaw feathers were found here, suggesting people came from as far south as southern Mexico! When we went on a walk through the wonderful place. We saw so many cool things like farm places and kitchens. This place was so facinating.



Sunset Crater was a cinder-cone volcano that was named by John Powell. Since it erupted in the years 1040-1100AD, people still lived at Wupatki. The natives of Wupatki, after the eruption, threw items to the gods (Via Lava) in prayer! Sunset Crater had pahoehoe lava. All of the black rocks in my photo were once lava! When we got here we did a quick walk and learned about the great place. When i saw the place I didn't belive what is sawt first because the lava looked so unreal.