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deeper than Lieberz, Zeman or Lo~~ had ever been. ~fuen we arrived atthe end of the last survey. we faced virgin cave. I rigged the next drop.Jancewicz joined me in the torrent from above and was sent on do~~ toexplore ahead. We then began the survey. ~fuen the shots had been recordedand all others were do~~ the next 10m shaft, I heard a shout from above.It sounded like Jancewicz so I assumed she had explored around so~ehowand was coming down the ropes. Instead, it turned out to be Jim Smith. Hehad come in solo from the entrance, had found our note at C~p II sayingwhere we were going, and had sought us out.We all descended into new cave. Smith and Jancewicz led explorationwhile our survey follo~ed. There was more water in this passage than hadbeen seen elsewhere in the cave. Several climbdowns were done in the waterwhere it poured into pools below. There was much swinming between drops.Finally, after setting stations in this downtrending passage, we caughtup with Jim and Jean at a sump. Jim had dived into a sump with a linebeing dealt by Jean. He had, after two meters, come up into air space.This stretched 5m and then sumped again. It didn't look good. A belayerfor another dive would have to do so while already beyond one sump andtreading water. ~ot an appealing project. The ceilings character didn'tgive an impression of going cave beyond.Our team of six members began de-rigging from this sump at -859m.~le had been out of camp for 24 hours when we returned laden with allthe ropes from below. It was April 7; we were expected on the surfacelate on the next day.De-riggingWe had a very surmountable chore" in front of us in deriggingSotano de San Agustin. There were six of us in Camp II and three personson the surface. Of these three, only Broussard could be expected to lendmuch support. lolhen Camp II was cleaned up we had two full duffle bags plusa large pile of ropes. In addition, we also each had a rucksack containingour individual camping gear. Our plan was to exit from the cave with thesecamp packs and return to Camp II to de~rig in stages from there. Hehauled all gear from Camp II to the base of the next pit and headed outfrom there. Smith and Lieberz, being last in the procession of our leaving,followed up hauling the total burdens upward. They got all ropes andthe two duffles to the base of the 318, two drops (80' and 180') aboveCamp II.The 180 had eaten one rope already. A knot needed to be passed sone5m up the drop where two ropes were tied together where the fray had been.Being first up on our exit, I encountered the worst fray of my verticalcaving life some 30m above the point where the other had been. The sheathof the Bluewater II was totally gone with six inches of inner core showing,looking like taunt rubber bands. This was tied off with a figure 8,bypassing the da~aged area. The pit this happened in is a Goldline dropif ever there was one.~¥o days after leaving the cave and follOWing an Easter in ~u3utla.six of us reentered San Agustin to ~ork further on de-rigging it. :hetwenty SOI!le odd cans left by Schreiber at the tor of the' 318 '"ere emr::ied,crushed, and the food dU!'llped in the stream to be flushed ~l71th the torrentsof the coning rainy season. The 313 took c';r team seven ho,1r., to noveeverything up. Lieberz ~lOrked the tcttom, eying on eear. Jan·;:ewicz ',7asst~tioned on a ledge 2:) Il!eters dm.ll that every lead hung up on. ZeT.an.Jim Smith. and I did the muscle at ~oo while no~an f~d t~e junar safetybrake. T'le had a separate ~aul line, making sure it '-,1d the nain climb:bg25
line didn't cross; nylon against nylon could sever a rope from the beatof friction.In the course of a long, 20 hour trip, our six derigp,ed the growingload up t'"NO drops. ,~e had all above the 110' following the 318 when ~yeheaded out with individual loads of rope to be dragged out to the house.The fissure of San Agustin had proven to be a poor place to rig fro~ aboveand pull gear up. There were just too many spots the gear hung up on. Thedecision thusly ~yas made for the fissure to be derigged "ant-like;" individualburdens climbed with through the narrow confines of the fissure'srift. This proved to work. Within four hours on the next trip in, thefissure was empty of all.Camp I, the sight of the Canadian's 1968 stay, proved to have twoduffles of plastic containers, food, and cans. This was added to thesurmounting pile and moved on. The broken 160' pitch above Ca!!lp I wasaccomplished by spreading people out on ledges up its distance whilepulled from above. It worked. By the end of this second full trip ofderigging, 18 hours, all gear was moved to the base of the entrance pit.The final derip.~ing effort was accomplished on the 8th of April,1977. All eight of us that were left at San Agustin hauled the sevenduffle bags and more than 50 coils of rope up the 260' entrance drop andcarried loads to the rented house on Kelty packframes.The next day we left for Austin.Bill SteeleEach person who receives this Activities Letter is a member of the Al~Sand should have his membership card. If you do not yet have your cardsend a note to Box 7672 and we will send you your nembership card •.. ,.: t.·ii~~:-
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ASSCCIATION FOR MEXICAN CAVE STUDIE
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3So the large-entranced sotano whic
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5MINA OTATES, T&~.: DSC. 25, 1974,
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MERIDA, YUC.: OCT. 1974, David McKe
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AMCSMEMBERSHIP ACTIVITIES LETTEREdi
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3Michael Schulte has been working o
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5To the right of the partition in t
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7Diamond Cave RevisitedAndy Grubbs,
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9CHE~-VEN-SIL-MUTSYSTEM\+--1000 ft.
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Cave Map Symbols11On the following
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13I NATIONAL SPELEOLOGICAL ISOCIETY
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ASSOCIATION FOR MEXIC&~ CAVE STUDIE
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17Discussion of Map Symbolsby Bill
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19in a 90 meter pit could collect d
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AMCSACTIVITIES LETTEREdited by Bill
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3After leaving Valladolid we went t
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CASI UlL 5By Bill Stone as told to
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June 97Dear AMCSRE:Diamond CaveAfte
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Anyways we speleo-boppedEstrella an
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The adrenelin still pumping through
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13Sotano Hondo de Pina1itoBy Steven
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CAVE MAP SYMBOLS(continued)15The AM
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mechanical shading -- the dots, con
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morphogenetic feature involving gra
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height variation, say. across the w
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23that list to include a broader se
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25be represented by rigidly p,eomet
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27..• D. 0. ȯGravelFEATURENOTESS
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ASSOCIATION FOR MEXICAN CAVEUAP Snm
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AlfCSACTIVITIES LETTEREdited by Bil
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35. I personally had the following
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volunteered to rescue the bag. They
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one large black hole near the top o
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The next day we left camp at dawn a
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11First Exploration of NogalThursda
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'"entire passage has·solutional ro
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13Date: January, 1975Destination: A
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15Trip Report, Christmas-New Years
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THEOTATES MINE AREA17SIERRA DE EL A
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large storms, this arroyo sends flo
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20but the handholds are unstable re
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22Diamante received its name from t
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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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Page 102 and 103: 3View across the botto~ of Hoya de
Page 104: dubbed "The 170" quickly led to ano
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Page 109 and 110: which would have been hazardous hol
Page 111 and 112: \I0YA DE LA LUZProfile B-B'Located
Page 113 and 114: 12hotic DiseasesThe August 1976 iss
Page 115 and 116: 14San Juan Area Nov 1976"eo?le: Tr~
Page 117 and 118: 16Caving in Puebla, Vera Cruz, and
Page 119 and 120: RETURN TO HUAUTLA~Jith t~e 1976-77
Page 121: 20SCHOOL BUS SCOOPSZOaUITLAN AREA~)
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Page 127 and 128: 2April 1, 1977, marks the 10th anni
Page 129 and 130: TRIP REPORTSDestination: Cueva del
Page 131 and 132: 5uestination: Sierra las Alazanas a
Page 133 and 134: The Fissure t..as located by T.P.
Page 135 and 136: 11The next morning Francisco "Kissi
Page 137 and 138: 12could scamper up a wed~ed log and
Page 139 and 140: 14This idea was thwarted given an u
Page 141 and 142: 16NEW YEAR'S DAY IN SAN AGUSTINan t
Page 143 and 144: 1'1later Jim and I began the long c
Page 145 and 146: 20Our group of six intended on rapp
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Page 149: 24and myself about trash and abando
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Page 155 and 156: 30Medical Report On The April 1977
Page 157 and 158: '32One caver alInost lost her voice
Page 159 and 160: 34considered normal. The diabetic d
Page 161 and 162: 36Jim Smit~ Has followinp, Blake Ha
Page 163: 3~the spot would make a smaU slip.
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Page 169 and 170: 'International NewsTHE SIERRA DE GU
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Page 173: The Ten Deepest Caves in Mexicoby B
Page 176 and 177: to a drop. t returned and dropped a
Page 178 and 179: to the entrance. From San Andres we
Page 180 and 181: stove in a semi-catatonic state. He
Page 182 and 183: above the roaring cascades. At time
Page 184 and 185: With two leads 'beckoning we began
Page 186 and 187: Chaining a passage in Cueva de Infi
Page 188 and 189: the cave. We pulled our rope down b
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Page 192 and 193: series of parallel ascending (+30 0
Page 194: La Sistema Purificacidn: a theory a
Page 197 and 198: Between the Cold and the" GlorybyTe
Page 199 and 200: Back tothe Bird PitsbyBill StoneSum
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'Getting Down in Peiiaby Bill Stone
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