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= Timothy Falter and Xavier Henry Grand Canyon Journal. =

**THE GRAND CANYON TRIP WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!! We were so lucky to get to go**. The weather was great EXCEPT for the wind. I can't believe how windy it was; if you didn't hold on to your hat it would have blown off and fallen all the way to the Colorado River. When you are at the top it looks like some thing from a science fiction movie From the top it looks strangely small, but when you start to hike into the canyon you Realize how large it is. My group hiked down a quarter mile into the canyon on the Bright Angel trail. The first things to use the Bright Angel trail were Big horn sheep next the Native Americans, and then the miners who turned it into a tourist attraction. As we hiked deeper and deeper into the canyon it started to warm up quite a bite. On the way down we passed through two tunnels and some pictographs. While we were hiking I noticed some water coming out of the sides of the canyon wall. I was informed that this was caused from water trapped in the sand stone seeping out of the wall. Ground squirls are the most dangerous animals at the grand canyon The Glen Canyon river trip was definitely my favorite part of the hole trip. We started with a drive through a tunnel in the canyon wall. After we got off the bus we put on hard hats and walked across a short bridge. once we got across the bridge we put on life jackets and got on the boats. While we were on the river we had so much fun. We saw a great blue herons, some snowy egrets, and lots of fishermen all along the river after a while we stopped at this one beach with red sand. A little inland there were some petroglyphs. We all had a blast. After we left the boats we could still see the river. This is what it looked like a little down stream.

Our second to last stop was at balancing rocks where we took a group photo. these rock formations are formed when chunks of rock falls on loosely packed soil. When the rock is on the ground it compacts the soil. Over time the soil erodes and you have a balancing rock. Our last stop was Sunset Crater Did you know that there are over 500 volcano's in North East Arizona? Well it's true. and Sunset Crater is one of many. The Ice Cave and yes there really is ice in there. The temperature in there is always is about 32 degrees in there so there is ice in it all year round. The lava flow. when sunset crater erupted a massive lava flow formed that can still be seen today. The lava shown here is ah ah lava (don't ask its Philippine) it is very sharp so watch out.

Well that about sums it up here some more photos --We all are checking out the Ice cave--- Glen Canyon Dam- Little Niagara