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151ground in the area. (See photograph on page 152.) Along the waythey were shown a horizontal entrance 7 feet high and 20 feet wide.They were told that they were the first North Americans to see thecave but it was not checked since the main objective was the s6tano.Only three of the team managed to fight their way to the s6tano'sentrance as the last 1/4 mile of trail was made as they went.Evans said that it was one of the best s6tano entrances he had seenand estimated the drop at about 200 feet. As it was quite late alreadythey headed back toward the rancho.23 December Today was declared a day of rest as both teams plannedto hIke up to the newly located sotano the next day and spendtwo days away from base camp. A trip was made into Xilitla and wepassed the Arkansas-M1ssouri crew on the way. In the afternoonRichard and Kirk descended into S6tano de Huitzmolotitla to thebottom of the entrance drop.24 December We made last minute additions to our back packs,and packed our 2700 feet of rope. It had rained the day beforeand the weather still looked far from encouraging for our hike.A thick cloud cover entirely concealed the top of the mountainrange and our rock-spire landmark, La Silleta. Larry and myselfhad corne down with colds so' things looked bleak.In Tlamaya we made arrangements to rent two burros to haulour ropes the 6 miles to our new camp, the horizontal cave seen byTeam 2 on their previous sojourn. The lo-year-old son of the owneraccompanied us to drive and care for the burros. Travel was slowwith the burros and one stumbled and fell 3 times on the steeperportions of the trail. Each time it was necessary to unload theanimal in order to get him back on his feet. The trail finallybecame too steep for the burros about 1/8 mile below the horizontalcave. They were unloaded and the boy took them back to Tlarnayawith instructions to return to the same location in two days. Mucheffort was expended in getting all of our gear up that final, steepslope and the last of it didn't reach the cave until about 9 p.m.25 December Again we divided into teams in order to accomplishthe maxImum in the short time we had. Four of the group went upto the s6tano, which we named s6tano de La Silleta. They startedoff on the last horribly steep mile with about 1600 feet of rope.The others and I remained and surveyed the cave in which we hadcamped. After completion of the survey we were to join the othergroup with the remainder of the rope. If their gear had been exhaustedwe would go in and push farther while they rested back atcamp.The cave of our camp, duly christened Gruta de Navidad (seemap on page 153), is essentially a joint-controlled passage thatslopes gently up as one goes in. A small arroyo begins at thecave entrance, indication that water discharges have occurred inthe past. A small active stream issues from the back of the cave,courses along the eastern wall for about 100 feet, then disappearsinto the wall. The back portion of the cave is well decorated andextremely wet on the western side, this water adding greatly tothe flow of the small stream. A side passage trends to the southwestfrom the main passage about 200 feet in from the entrance andis lower than the rest of the cave, thereby being qUite muddy. Wesurveyed 850 feet in Gruta de Navidad with only a couple of orawlsleft unohecked.
XILITLA AREA. View east from the base of the La Silleta pinnacle. The Tlamayasolution valley is in right-center and the Inter-American Highway runs north-souththrough valley in upper-center. Photo by Danny Evans
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THE ASSOCIATION FORMEXICAN CAVE STU
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de T1amaya the deepest surveyed cav
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and is about 200 feet long. It is p
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Modesto G6mez Saldivar, 1898-1966Mo
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JOHN WILLIAM FRANCIS HARRISONBORN B
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have been found even at Harrison's
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Note: This is the first of a series
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it has rained three and four inches
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The Deep Caves or the Western Hemis
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Persons: Ed Alexander, Bob Burnett,
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go north of Galeana to Ranchero Sou
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26Persons: Chip Carney and Don Eric
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Sandy-floored passage in S6tano de
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slopes, made difficult by the thin
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Persons: Faye Chapman I Jonathan Da
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a rutted road. On the other side of
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Entrance to S6tano de San Antonio.
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totENTRANCEo 30FEET60 90iCUEVA DETL
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contained a long, steep talus slope
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Entrance to Cueva del Salitre.Photo
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On July 12 I had an hour's intervie
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One of the many Santa Fe dirt sinks
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330 feet. At the bottom along one s
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species of milliped of a group not
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secondary opening one-third of the
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After a perusal of our topo maps th
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HUAUTLA DE JIMENEZ, OAXACAAREA SKET
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11. Pit just down hill from pit 10.
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21. SOTANO DE SAN AGUSTIN - This s6
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LOWERENTRANC.EPROI="ILEuppeR£NTRAN
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RECENT PAPERS ON MEXICAN CAVE BIOLO
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here from Gruta del Palmito, Nuevo
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View north along valley of the Inte
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Typical fissure passages in S6tano
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valley below the resurgences were d
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point on, green mosses cover the wa
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Persons: John Fish, David McKenzie,
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Buena la dozen eager guides led us
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los Riscos (see sketch map on page
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Persons: Jim and Barbara Hershberge
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20' PITENTRANCE L-l. ", ...,\ '-'-~
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Editor's Note: The following propos
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permanent river in the area is the
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Develop the cavern and an access to
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OF THEPROPOSEDPARQUE NACIONAL DE LA
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100area, was rather surprising, sin
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1.2.3.4.5.6.MEXICAN CAVE BIOLOGY:AN
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Page 112 and 113: 107NEWSNOTESTABLE OF CONTENTSTRIP R
Page 114 and 115: 109CAVEMAPSDuring the past six year
Page 116 and 117: 111CAVES OF GUERRERO AND MORELOSJOH
Page 118 and 119: 113in the volcanic detrital deposit
Page 120 and 121: 115CAVE DESCRIPTIONSGRUTA DE ACUITL
Page 122 and 123: 117CUEVA DE CARLOS PACHECOcavecavec
Page 124 and 125: 119CUEVA DEL DIABLOLocation:Descrip
Page 126 and 127: 121References:levels. The entrance
Page 128 and 129: 123decorated passage which extends
Page 130 and 131: 125collections by Stanley Kiem (Loo
Page 132 and 133: 1279.10.11.12.13.14.caves or cave-l
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Page 138 and 139: 131TABLE OF CONTENTSNEWS NOTES. ...
Page 140 and 141: NENCINO - JULILO ROADSSOTANO DE SAN
Page 142 and 143: FEETo100SOTANO DE LA JOYAJOYA DE SA
Page 144 and 145: 137had not been checked was followe
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Page 154 and 155: 147S6tano de las Ra!ces lon the sam
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Page 162 and 163: 155NOTES ON THE EXPLORATION OF SOTA
Page 164 and 165: 157obtain a rough idea of how many
Page 166 and 167: 159Grutas de Mogote, located one mi
Page 168 and 169: 161Past the first large room (appro
Page 170 and 171: 163-749 feet. The left-hand passage
Page 172 and 173: 165it looked a good 300 feet deep.
Page 174 and 175: 167was. Almost 2 hours were require
Page 176 and 177: Haarr, Allan P. 50 Clover Dr Delmon
Page 178 and 179: 171Young, sam and Diane 474 lOth Av
Page 180 and 181: 173RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE KNOWLEDG
Page 182 and 183: 175large horizontal passage about 1
Page 184 and 185: 177S6tano de Huitzmolotitla, with a
Page 186 and 187: AreaNorth ofMonterreySouth ofMonter
Page 189 and 190: 182BIOLOGYSECTIONMEXICAN CAVE BEETL
Page 191 and 192: 184from Canada to Oaxaca, but only
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Page 196 and 197: 187Cantabroniscus primitivus isopod
Page 198 and 199: 189Hooton, Diana 6:149-154Hosley, B
Page 200 and 201: 191pictographs 5:121Pinal de Amo1es
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