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2009 Trip to the Southwest
From May 21 to June 6, 2009 ten students and Professors Ratner and Matchak participated in a field course studying the Southwest United States. The class flew to Denver, Colorado and spent two days exploring the city. They then piled into two vans traveling to the north rim of the Grand Canyon and then back to Denver. On the way, stops were made at Mesa Verde, Zion, Bryce, and Arches National Parks. Tours of the Glen Canyon Dam, Navajo National Monument, Red Rocks Park and Amphitheater, and the Argo historic gold mine and processing plant were taken. A day was spent rafting through the Fisher Towers area of the Colorado River and an afternoon was spent basking in the Glenwood Springs hot pool, the largest hot springs swimming pool in the world. The four themes of the course were national parks, weather and climate, past, present and future settlement patterns, and water.
