Vazquez Rocks
It did rain for 10 mins on this trip. It added some excitement.
The teacher asked the students to observe the holes everywhere in this sandstone. What might have caused them to form?
Eating lunch in one of Vazquez's caves by the river
Students watch the birds of prey and sparrows along the canyon walls
The hike down to the Cave took an hour with some great water breaks on the way.
Students with their science notebooks. Today was a drawing assignment.
After lunch the students did some more drawings
The visitor center rangers demo birds of prey to the class
Ranger talks about behavior of owls in the area
Some called her the bird woman
Students draw the sloping anticline and features
Most of these students had never been here
Cave on the Pacific Crest Trail portion of the hike.
The trailhead is about a mile past the visitor center. When you get down to the river hike up the creek trail about 500 yards to a big cave for a class picnic in a giant cave!