Getting prepared for our nine-mile Grand Canyon hike! I would send pictures but i am roaming here. I will post a bunch once i get better service.

Red Van is still Broken

Meteor Crater!

Hoover Dam

Stopped a Hoover Dam to eat some overpriced french fries.

Another shot of my winnings

Yay. Too bad those numbers only represent the number of pennies i won.

DOUBLE JACKPOT

WOOOOOOOOOOO

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Amazing Chocolate Fountain

I NEED THIS

Blown glass ceiling at the Bellagio.

Vegas!

Zero feet

Even though turtles are known to be physically incapable of jumping, they made this sign to show how far one can jump!

The most incredible bathroom ever

When you turned on the water a rave began, complete with flashing lights and lasers

Leaving death valley

Spending the night in Death Valley, no tent needed!

Top of the falls

Thats the back side of Half-Dome in the distance i think.

Top of the falls

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The flume

It would make a great waterslide if it werent for the 20-foot fall into jagged rocks at the end.

Vernal Falls

Start of our hike

Yosemite

Hiked a long way up to the top of several waterfalls today. Once i get service i will upload a ton of pics.

At Yosemite, still no service...

Made it to Yosemite! (sorry, very little service)

At a coin operated arcade!

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Whale Mural

Going to the aquarium!

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Warning

Truer words have never been spoken.

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Free day in San Fransisco!

Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge

...at least i THINK it was the Golden Gate Bridge. It was very foggy so it could have been anything.

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Looked at some beaches an tidepools today and saw a lot of anenemies and starfish. Tomorrow we are going into San Fran to die of smog inhilation.

Sleeping outside tonight. Hope the racoons dont get us...

We are literally camping right on top of the San Andreas fault.

In San Fransisco!

Just jumped into Crater Lake!

Just arrived at the Native American Museum in Warm Springs. I slept for the the last three hours so i have no idea what state im in.

Leaving for Crater Lake!

Sunset on the Columbia River

We played kickball today and managed to pop the ball in a record breaking 8 minutes. But then we had cheezy spagetti for dinner which kind of made up for it, but I am on kitchen crew so i have to be up at 5 AM...

...I hate kitchen crew...

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Fish processing plant

Herman the Stergeon

That was really his name.

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Dam

Stopped near the Bonneville dam to see a salmon run.

Our free day in Portland is over. I bought some voodoo donuts and three Dave Barry books and ate at a place called Thai Peacock. yay

Go Johnny Go

Like Deadwood, Portland has terrible singers who sing about some guy named "Johnny".

Voodoo Donut shop

Little ghost donut

Just got to Portland Oregon!

Mt. St. Helens

A few days ago we camped at the base of Mt. St. Helens, preparing to climb it in the morning. We left in two groups; slow climbers at 6AM and fast climbers at 7AM. I was in the fast climber group and it took me just under four hours to reach the summit. I was the second student up the mountain. We were above the cloud layer and the view was incredible. We could see mt. Hood and Rainer in the distance and the clouds looked like a blanket of mashed potatos below us. The climb was much harder than i expected but it was worth it! My body is still extremely sore though.

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Bigfoot's shot glass

If i didnt have to carry this around for the next 7 weeks i might have gotten this

Bigfoot is real!

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Climbing Mt. St. Helens

This is a day late but we climbed Mt. St. Helens! It was a much longer climb than i expected and near the top we had to take breathing breaks every 30 seconds. Also in the ashfield you would take three steps and then slide two steps backwards. Still, getting to the top was worth it. I dont have pictures on my phone but i have plenty on my camera.

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Phone re-charged, will update soon!

Heading to Washinton. Thats a 6-10 hour drive...

Quickly upladed a few photos to facebook.

Woah!!

Just found a HUGE fat catapillar! Thicker than my finger.

Saw a TJ Max and went to it thinking it wasa restaraunt. It was not.

Went to the KOA ice cream social and then hung out with some people in the hot tub. Next time i should do it in reverse order so the ice cream doesnt melt

Just got to a KOA in Missoula. I pronouced "Missoula" horribly wrong.

Goodbye Yellowstone

We have now left Yellowstone. Hitchhiking around the park was extremly fun and/or dangerous but we still have a lot of learning to do. The van is continuing to be as annoying as possible by refusing to stay fixed for longer than 20 minutes. We had to completely cancel our trip to Glacier because of it. Instead we are going to spend our time looking at fields of cows and kicking the side of Red van. YAY!

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Back again

Lost my phone for a few days on account of me being rediculously late. Here is a picture of Norris basin.

Forging a river

Panoramic shot taken in the middle of Firehole River

Best day ever

Today was our day off because Red van was broken, so Sarah, Sam and I hitchiked into Yellowstone and did some off-trail hiking. We saw a wolf, forged some rivers, and tried to catch some frogs. At the end of the day we hitchhiked back out with some French nuclear physicists (really). Most fun ive had on this trip so far.

Cold

Staying in a trailer park in West Yellowstone. Its suppoed to get down to 23 degrees tonight so i MAY try to build a fire inside my tent.

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Fossils!

Here are some fossils i found in the Sundance formation. The left three are an extinct squidlike creature while the middle is a smooth polished stone that dinosaurs swallowed to help them crush up food. The right two are fossils of some kind of shellfish. It was amazing, there was so may fossils lying around that i couldnt carry then all!

Mapping Sheep Mountain

Today we spent roughly 14 hours mapping Sheep Mountain; named so because of its native population of wild mountain turkeys. One of the formations there is named "Chugwater", possibly replacin Big Clifty as my favorite rock formation name. The picture above is a paneramic shot from the top of the anticline.