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Connection in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Автор: Ioannis Zenas
Дата: 24 Apr 2007

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Connection in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Latest word from Mexico, assembled by Bill Mixon from e-mails from
Mark Minton and Bill Stone:

On April18, 2007, S?tano del R?o Iglesia was connected to Sistema
Huautla. A crew was sent to recheck a dig at the end of the Canadian's
1967 map, and the alleged impenetrable mud choke turned out to be a
crawlway with a howling wind. It was only 60 meters to the connection
into the S?tano de San Agust?n section of Huautla, where Matt
Covington and Yuri Schwartz came out in the Fool's Day Extension shaft
series, about 60 meters above Tommy's Borehole. The connection came
during eight days of camping in Iglesia, both in the Penthouse and in
the 1967 camp at -450 meters. Besides Matt and Yuri, Vickie Siegel,
Bill Stone, and David Ochel were involved in the underground-camp
push. The connection has increased the length of Sistema Huautla to
over 61 kilometers; its depth in unchanged.

Higher in S?tano del R?o Iglesia, about 1.5 kilometers of new passages
were found by Bill Steele, Diana Tomchick, Mark Minton, and Yvonne
Droms, providing several alternate routes from the river entrance to
the Penthouse, dropping in through domes in the ceiling of the huge
room. The relatively small expedition has not so far found a way to
follow the main R?o Iglesia river deeper, though.

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