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Yup.trogman wrote:the "length" of a cave is the total passage, whether it be horizontal, vertical, or something in between, that a person would pass through to go through the entire cave.
Nope.trogman wrote: But many folks I know take the length of horizontal passage (anything that is not a vertical pit), and put that down as the "length" of the cave. So a cave that has a 50' pit with 90' of passage at the bottom is stated as being a 90' long cave with 1 pit 50' deep. Likewise, a blind bottom pit 50' deep would be reported as a cave with 0' of passage and a 50' pit.
Nope.trogman wrote:Then of course there is the "map length," which if I understand correctly, is the plan view length of passage.
wyandottecaver wrote:I have not noticed a scheme for listing vertical lengths seperate i.e. 4 different 50' pits giving 200' of vertical cave. Rather the depth from highest to lowest point in the cave listed as its total depth regardless of how many vertical feet of pits/domes there may be.
Chris Chenier wrote:If Alabama requires 50' for a cave to appear in the state cave survey, and we were to use the horizontal length, that would mean that a 500' free drop with nothing at the bottom would not be considered a cave... hardly logical.
George Dasher wrote:You all are making this way too difficult.
Bob Thrun is correct; you can't argue with the survey tape.
If the tape says the cave is 100 feet long, then the cave is 100 feet long, no matter what the slope of the tape.
Thus a vertical 100-foot-deep, dead-bottomed pit is a cave 100 feet long.
George Dasher wrote:You all are making this way too difficult.
For mapping purposes, this is more accurate.
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