How about Pasaje Superior? There is a Pasaje Superior and Pasaje Inferior in Sótano de La Joya de Salas.
Mark mmin...@caver.net On Fri, December 19, 2014 2:17 pm, Nico Escamilla via Texascavers wrote: > Gill, I just posted a picture of the formations on your fb wall, and > corredor would be the right word, I'd use pasillo to describe some part of > a house > > El dic 19, 2014 12:08 PM, "Gill Ediger via Texascavers" > <texascavers@texascavers.com> escribió: > >> I just consulted my paper copy of the map and notice that I'd penciled in >> above the title 'Birthday Passage' the name 'Corredor Superior', which to >> me meant 'Upper Passage' at the time. I've come to discover that the word >> 'corredor' isn't usually used that way in Spanish. The proper term should >> probably be 'pasillo'. Eh, Nico? >> --Ediger >> >> On Friday, December 19, 2014 11:25 AM, Gill Ediger <gi...@att.net> wrote: >> >> I'm not familiar with the name "Cloud Room" and don't have account access >> to the photo sent with your post, Nico. Can somebody snag that pic and post >> it in the clear? I will try to compare it to any photos I might have. I >> think I shot all those in B&W so may not have them readily to hand. We had >> a room called the "Snow Room" which was just about the first feature on the >> right after going through the access crawlway from the balcony into the >> BDP. There were some rather large mammiform formations toward the back of >> the passage--developed underwater--which might be construed as clouds. >> The quoted statement, "the speleothems found in that "newly found part of >> the cave" " seems to not be referencing their 'discovery' of the passage >> but simply a term to indicate that it was discovered more recently than the >> main part of the cave, as if citing something called "the New Discovery" 40 >> years after its discovery. It has to be blatantly obvious to anyone >> visiting the BDP that it has had plenty of cavers exploring it and >> leaving foot prints in the mud and mud streaks all over the formations. >> When I first climbed up to the balcony in ~1969 there was already a set of >> footprints in the mud. But the crawlway leading to the rest of the BDP >> had not been violated, being on the floor and under a low ledge and not at >> all obvious. Whoever had preceded me had not bent over far enough to see >> it. After some time (months or years) I heard of a trip by TR Evans, Terry >> Raines, and another on which one of them (Terry, I think) had climbed up >> to the balcony but found no going passage. >> --Ediger _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
