by Cody JW » Oct 2, 2013 10:19 pm
I notice some are posting about dome climbs. If it is a dome that has been climbed maybe even with dead end horizontal up top or somewhere on the way up, does that count as a pit ?? If so Topless Dome of over 400 feet in Tumbling Rock Alabama could be included. Do we define a cave pit as something you access from the top or somewhere part of the way down and have to continue down to go on into the cave . Does this list distinguish between a dome and a pit ?? Maybe there is no official definition like common accepted map symbols? It seems you get into conflicting opinion of a single drop verses a pit with offsets and what is defined as a series of separate pits or a single pit. Interesting that there appears to be no set standard.Here is another twist , do we include water filled shafts . I ask because here in Indiana we have a water filled shaft ( True Rise Of The Lost River) that is around 160 feet mapped by cave divers years ago. It is not normally included in discussions of Indiana Pits. If it were , it would be our deepest pit. Maybe there is an accepted standard and I just do not know it ?? Thanks Kelly for giving us all of TAG , her lists had a few I had forgotten about.
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