17MB PDF - Association for Mexican Cave Studies
17MB PDF - Association for Mexican Cave Studies 17MB PDF - Association for Mexican Cave Studies
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330 feet. At the bottom along one side a deep beautiful bluelake extends about 180 feet beyond the lip of the sinkhole,but no passages were found to lead out. While Orion exploredthe cave Dick and I hiked around looking for other leads.Along the edge of a steep hill we found an extensive area ofgypsum sinks and fissures, but none were found to be of anyextent. More impressive was a narrow gorge about 150 feetdeep which had been cut straight down through the soft gypsiteand rock of the valley forming vertical walls. This gorgeeventually empties into a beautiful lake, the Laguna deLaboradores, but time did not permit our visiting the lake.Reportedly after a heavy rain a whirlpool once formed in thelake and dragged a boy down to his death. The lake is apparentlya filled sinkhole. From the Pozo de Gavilan we drove onnorth to the Puente de Dios, where we spent the night. (SeeAMeS NEWSLETTER, Volume I, Number 12, page 116.)After spending a pleasant night we awoke and while Orionclimbed down to the river for a bath Dick and I went to thetop of a beautiful 150 foot waterfall which drops down to theriver just downstream from the Puente de Dios. We spent apleasant hour or two walking up the stream to its source andthen climbing out of the stream bed and walking back down theroad to the Puente. Leaving here we drove on south to theGaleana turnoff where we met David McKenzie and group justarriving from Austin. We joined forces and drove on southchecking small sinks along the way. All dead-ended, but atSanta Fe we again stopped and Orion, David, and Jim Wylercarried 300 feet of rope up the hill to explore the deep dirtsink we had discovered two days earlier. While they were doingthis Dick and I walked over the countryside looking at othersinks. One of these was a 70 foot in diameter, 120 foot deepundercut sink with no apparent leads from the bottom. We didnot enter it, however. The deep dirt sink which the otherswere exploring ended after 227 feet of misery and we drove onsouth to Pablillo. .Here a few inquiries led us to the Sumidero de Pablillo.(See picture on page 50.) Pablillo is located in a broadvalley, from which a wide dirt-floored draw about 40 feet deepleads to end against a high cliff of gypsum. Two cave passagesextend from this broad sink, one dropping vertically while theother extends straight back into the cliff. Both connect afterabout 100 feet. The lower passage continues for about 300 morefeet to end in a low silted c~awl cgntaining bad air. Thatnight the thermometer dropped to 32 , indicating summer is thebest time to visit this area.The next morning we separated from David and his groupand while they drove south to Doctor Arroyo we first visiteda spring to replenish our water supply and then drove backtowards Galeana. Our first stop was at another dirt sink onthe east side of the highway. This sink proved to be a 50 footin diameter sink climbable for the first 40 feet but then droppingundercut into an impressive dirt room about 40 feet indiameter and 50 feet high. The rope cutting into the steeplyundercut wall made Jumar Ascenders a very welcome aid.52
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