3622: cave
N Vega 30T 449757 4796078 (Datum: ETRS89. Accuracy code: G) Altitude 270m
Length 122m Depth 59m
Area position : Logbook search

Updated 28th September 2012

The obvious, excavated hole is at about the lowest point at this part of the valley and appears to take a stream in wet weather. A short climb down a loose wall meets a duck under to a tighter section that drops down a bed into a chamber. To the right, through a stoop, is a small aven with calcite and a choked area; straight ahead in the chamber, down slope leads to the head of the first pitch, p7. A 4m drop leads to the head of an 8m pitch. A 10m sloping drop ends at a 7m pitch that drops into a 10 - 12m diameter chamber with a couple of blind holes under boulders. A steep, scalloped, clean-washed rift drops down to a small, circular shaft that lands in an elongated chamber.

The main way out is a tight rift, quickly opening to a fossil streamway for about 12m to a mud sink and no possible way on. In the opposite direction is a narrow rift that becomes too tight about 6 or 7m. This did not look promising.

For SRT, a 60m rope, 10 hangers and 3 slings will tackle the pitches and climbs between them.

Reference: anon., 2012b (Easter logbook); Corrin Juan, 2013a
Entrance picture : yes
Underground pictures : yes
Video : exploring crawl to first pitch
Detailed Survey : altered sketch from logbook : pdf survey
Line Survey :
On area survey :
Survex file : yes (Amended magnetic declination December 2013 to align with Eur79 grid and coordinates altered to fit ETRS89 datum, April 2014.)

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