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Grotte de favot

Alex Ritchie · July 26, 2020, 7:30 a.m. 3 people · 3 hours and 45 minutes
Cavers Chris Sharman, Chris Kelly
Date/time entered Sun 26 Jul 20 — 07:30 2020-07-26 07:30
Date/time exited Sun 26 Jul 20 — 11:15 2020-07-26 11:15
Trip type Sport
Region Vercors
Country France
Clubs BRCC
Rope descent 100m
Rope ascent 100m
Notes

A cave that's really hard to get to as you follow an undefined path up a steep forest between cliffs, but eventually we found it. The entrance is large, but soon closes down to a crawl entering another large tube the size of the london underground, that breaks out onto the surface high above the ground and drops down a steep 60 or so meter deep slope, all very theratic. We rigged this but just held on, it was steep enough to need a rope but it was not really a pitch so we treated it as a very long hand line climb, there's no drop at the bottom. Once in it was full of great formations, the second pitch rigging required a few attempts as bolts on the right seemed to go no where. Eventually we got to the bottom only to find a lake the cave is famous for is not there as it had dried up, small passages leading off were explored but they were mainly choked with mud.