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10Two days later we took daypacks and scouted 12 miles of trails leadingto Rancho el Teposan and Joya del ~.ague finding no less than 25 leads, sometaking water, some fairly large-entranced, and mostly 100'-200' entrance drops.The exception was a 40' diameter pit in Rancho Tabago which the locals measuredat 100 m. +, using a rock and a piece of string -- until they ran out of stringCould be a deep one : Anyways. All this time we were camped at the house of Sr.Bernardo Dias whose hospita,l1ty, coffee, tortillas, and venison will· forever beremembered. We also bottomed Sotano de las Flores on the return trip fron SanAntonio. At -305' it is basically one shaft with small offsets.Incredible public relations have been established in Tancoyol and surroundingareas. Lets hope everyone who goes there strives to keep it that way.We arrived in Savallo two days later and made pl~~s to hike to Tierra Friawhere a 40 m. diameter pit was reported -- only tw\. hours from Savallo. Stevewas recouperatinR from some bad blisters and decided to bag the hike the next day.He must have been clairvoyant : Spencer and I be~an ...·hat can only be called anepic journey : Six hours after starting we arrived in Tierra Fria, not the twohour jaunt we were expecting : Upon questioning the locals we learned to ourincredible amazement that not only was there not a 40 m. diameter pit in town,but they didn't know of any pits at all less than 3 hours away: Hay caramba.So we hiked another 1 1/2 hours to Rancho Mojonera. Supposedly the guy inTancoyol who gave us the lead was born there. This at least turned out to betrue. However, as for the 40 m. diameter pit -- not so good. The nearest sotanothey knew of was at leas t another hour down the trail. Relieve me when I saythat ~e were at the end of our blue lines by then : It was gettin~ late and arainstorm was coming in. and all we had were daypacks. Reluctantly we hikedanother hour to the town of El Quirino. Here at least the locals knew of anearby pit. They said "Its very deep we think, due to the arroyo which leadsin" to which my trail-benumbed mind. instantly snapped out of its stupor saying"arroyo? arroyo?! going into a pit!" " Lets go". Well we followed the arroyoover 1/2 mile to the edge of a corn field where it made an abrupt left and doveinto the blackness-- far out! The entrance was a little over 20' in diameter.The locals said wa~~r entered the cave every time it rained-- evidenced by thesolution scour marks on the wall. Rocks bounced for 10-14 seconds with at least4 seconds of free-fall to start. The entrance is well over 7000' in elevation.So with this promising lead urging us onward, we decided to attempt to make itto the highway by dark which they assured us was not more than three hours away.The locals said there were nany other leads like that one nearby but we optionedout on the hike at the time. The name of the pit was Sotano de Cagualin. 'tvell anhour later we crested the western ridge and could faintly make out the JalpanRio Verde Highway -- a long ways down ! The sun was goinR dmm fast so we reallytrucked for the remaining hour of light -- fortunately it uas all downhill. Onthe way we intersected a new dirt road which the work~n told us was being builtto San Juan -- only 1/2 hour from the pit : t11th this enlightening news we hikedthree miles down the road in the dark. At this point we should have stumbled intoLa Purisima. But ~1utha ~ature didn't know we were coming and stuck this stupidriver between us and the highwa~r : (Actually the P-1.o Jalpan) Not being able tofind a bridge in the dark merely increased our consternation as neither of uswanted to swim across the river. So we went down the side hoping to find "something"to cross on -- "something" turned out to be a 5/S- wire rope suspended30' above the river -- not exactly MY ideal bridge -- but it was all we had. Soooosnugging up t!1Y 1" webbing belt on the cable for a safety I crawled across the cablefor 300" to the other side. The only casualty was Spencers hat which fell into theriver in mid-traverse :continued
The adrenelin still pumping through my weary bod, we stumbled into La Purisimaand had a few refrescos. ive then sat in the middle of the highway trying to hitcha ride back to Savallo. No luck -- But the local bartender invited us in and procededto get us totally wasted. (Not that we weren't already!) Around 2 A.M. wemanaged to get some sleep at a nearby house, whose friendly owner also stuffed usfull of beans and tortillas. At 6 A.M. we were awakened by the shouting of "thebus is here" and we ran out. boots untied and gear dragging. 20 minutes of a hecticbus ride later we arrived in Jalpan. A short wait there and we were off to Landade Matamoras. Things were going great till then, when we discovered how few vehicleswent down the dirt road to Saucillo. So another 7 miles later we arrived at thetruck - 29 miles in 24 hours· on foot and 30 miles of bus travel was about themost intense scouting endeavor I've ever experienced.We split for the states the next day as I began my 3rd month in Mexico thissummer.Soledad Area ReportThe latest, I think, issue of the Philadelphia Grotto News, Vol. 12, 1973,contains the long awaited report of the several trips by members of the PhiladelphiaGrotto to the Soledad Area in Veracruz. This moupta~nous; area is located just southof Cd. Mendoza, Veracruz. The report contains a location map and a description ofseveral caves written by Bob Kezell and Warren Heller. Cueva de Cerro (= SotanoItamo) was surveyed to a depth of 1437 feet below the entrance. The cave has a verticalrange of 1491 feet, and is the largest and deepest so far explored in the SoledadArea. An example of the importance of using the local name for a cave is illustratedby the remapping of the same cave by a group from Austin in June 1974. The Austingroup recorded a depth of 1437 feet -- forty feet less than the Philadelphia groupbut the zero point of the Philadelphia map is above the zero point of the Austin mapso the actual depths are very close. However. with the numerous potentially deepsystems in the Soledad area it is unfortunate that a great amount of effort was duplicatedin producing two maps of the same cave.Bill RussellAlpine PaleokarstThe thick cretaceous limestones of northern Mexico have been folded intosharp anticlines and the resultant fracturing has permitted the development oflocalized areas of sinkholes along the crest of the folds. The largest sink areayet investigated was on the Sierra El Laurel Quadrangle (G14C42) west of Saltillo.Along the crest of the Sierra la Concordia at an elevation of 3150 meters. severalsinks up to a kilometer long had developed, but are now apparently being filledwith alluvium. Another local cluster of sinks has been investigated north of Cuevadel Porvenir on the Reforma Quadrangle (G14A6l). These sinks have developed on thecrest of the Sierra de San Marcos at an elevation of 1600 m. At this lower elevationthe change from the more humid climate that favored the development of sinkholesto the present arid climate is more evident. Large alluvial fans are buildinginto the main dolina, about 1 Km. long and 0.5 Km. wide. Several small sinksbordering the main dolina have been completely filled, the alluvium spilling overinto lower sinks. It is apparent that. in the past, climatic conditions were morefavorable for the development of surface karst, and karst features developed in thepast are now rapidly being destroyed. Both these areas were investigated on almostthe same day. Making the long climb up to the crest of the Sierra El Laurel wasMaureen Cavanaugh, Blake Harrison, Jill Dorman, Mary Kraska, and Preston Forsythe.Back-packing into the Sierra de San Marcos were Peter Sprouse. Bill Russell, LoganMcNatt and Speleocinematographer Thomas Moore.11
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Page 9: MERIDA, YUC.: OCT. 1974, David McKe
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Page 19 and 20: 7Diamond Cave RevisitedAndy Grubbs,
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jer_I') CIRCLE ROOW•LA CUEVA DE J
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elev 1310mmeters 0Hoya de las Conch
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AMCS ACTIVITIES LETTEREdited by Bil
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3View across the botto~ of Hoya de
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dubbed "The 170" quickly led to ano
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Roy dropped 3 pits an'i :l cave nea
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which would have been hazardous hol
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\I0YA DE LA LUZProfile B-B'Located
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12hotic DiseasesThe August 1976 iss
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14San Juan Area Nov 1976"eo?le: Tr~
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16Caving in Puebla, Vera Cruz, and
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RETURN TO HUAUTLA~Jith t~e 1976-77
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20SCHOOL BUS SCOOPSZOaUITLAN AREA~)
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2April 1, 1977, marks the 10th anni
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TRIP REPORTSDestination: Cueva del
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5uestination: Sierra las Alazanas a
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The Fissure t..as located by T.P.
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11The next morning Francisco "Kissi
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12could scamper up a wed~ed log and
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14This idea was thwarted given an u
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16NEW YEAR'S DAY IN SAN AGUSTINan t
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1'1later Jim and I began the long c
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20Our group of six intended on rapp
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22here and poked around for leads.
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24and myself about trash and abando
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line didn't cross; nylon against ny
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30Medical Report On The April 1977
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'32One caver alInost lost her voice
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34considered normal. The diabetic d
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36Jim Smit~ Has followinp, Blake Ha
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3~the spot would make a smaU slip.
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AMCSACTIVITIeSNewsLe TTe Rno. 7
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'International NewsTHE SIERRA DE GU
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International Newsin the entrance a
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The Ten Deepest Caves in Mexicoby B
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to a drop. t returned and dropped a
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to the entrance. From San Andres we
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stove in a semi-catatonic state. He
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above the roaring cascades. At time
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With two leads 'beckoning we began
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Chaining a passage in Cueva de Infi
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the cave. We pulled our rope down b
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increased the cave's depth to -197
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series of parallel ascending (+30 0
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La Sistema Purificacidn: a theory a
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Between the Cold and the" GlorybyTe
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Back tothe Bird PitsbyBill StoneSum
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'Getting Down in Peiiaby Bill Stone
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