Devils Tower National Monument

Devils Tower is 1,267 feet tall. Its in the northeast corner of Wyoming.

Some Indians made up storys of how devils tower was formed.    In one story there was two girls who left there own village. Several giant bears spotted them and started chasing them. The girls ran to the top of a flat rock and prayed and then the rock grew in to a mountain. While it was growing the bears were trying to climb it but they kept sliding down and scraping the rock with there  giant claws.

Devils Tower is important because its a sacred place to many Indian tribes. It also shows us how erosion changed earth surface.  Devils Tower was our first National Monument.

10 mile hike #2

we went on hike to case mountain. this is the hike i planed.i brought apples,beef jerky,cheese sticks, for every body


the hike was long and exhausting because we had three climbs. it was hot but we drank a lot of water and filed it three times. we heard coyotes and saw deer, chipmunks.


my favorite part was the end just kidding my favorit was the hole thing.


maybe next time we start earlier so that we don't have to spent as much time in the heat

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Planned Hike

here is a map of our hike
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4621754

we should start on a Saturday morning because it gets hot in the after noon. 

We start our hike on Case Mountain off of Spring street. We will take three climbs.  It will be hilly.  Wear  your hiking boots and bring water bottle that you can refill theirs a lot of water along the way. at the sixth mile we can refill.


we should bring

•  water bottle
• first aid kit
• bug spray
• light jacket
• compass
• snacks

for lunch ill bring apples, beef jerky,and string cheese,  

Old Fort Niagara

I visit Fort Niagara, witch its a national historical land mark, with my troop when we went to Niagara Falls. I learned that they made hills to trick people from breaking in the fort. they trick people when they think its not vary tall but its real tall.

This fort was important because stop the enemies from going threw The Great Lakes.thats important  because it brings you to Mississippi River then to the Gulf Of Mexico. having the fort allowed our trade ships and military ships to get through.

this is were i got my information.

• http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=400&ResourceType=District NHRP#66000556
• http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/Weekly_List_FR-Tuesday-Feb-6-1979-listingyear1966-1978.pdf (page 7539)
• http://oldfortniagara.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Niagara

10 mile hike #1

We walked on walker reservoir to bolten notch. We walked mostly on the blue trail. On the way we saw some animals like turkey,geese,dogs of course,and maybe chipmunks.

The weather was pretty good out. I packed my water bottle,compass,and first aid kit. I had to refill my water bottle half way. geezer morse has a water filter to refill my bottle with water that's safe to drink.

we walked to valley falls,the big cliffs,a bridge above a waterfall,walked along the rails to trails bike path.


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i felt good for awhile but i got exhausted. but after all it was fun hike. my favorite part was the turkeys.

Niagara Falls Trip

I saw niagara falls with my troop.  we saw fort niagara.  we saw the falls after dark.  we all went to Canada and go up the Skylon Tower.  we went in tunnels that took us under the falls.  we went over the great whirlpool. it was vary vary cold.

back at the camp we watch a movie called Tron.  but before the movie dad and I went to a stor to buy  a shower curtain to make a screen for the movie.

on the ride to niagara falls started off playing mariokart with our DSs. Andrew and teddy and griffen and I went on Flip Notes and all shared videos.

my favorite part of the whole trip was when I went over the falls in a barrel with my father

(just kidding)
actualy my favorite part was the whole thing.  thanks to geezer padget fore seting it up.