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Alex Ritchie · April 14, 2025, 8:37 a.m. 3 people · 5 hours and 55 minutes
Cavers Sam (Photo), Same Lee
Date/time entered Mon 14 Apr 25 — 08:37 2025-04-14 08:37
Date/time exited Mon 14 Apr 25 — 14:32 2025-04-14 14:32
Trip type Photography
Region Cantabria
Country Spain
Clubs Matienzo
Expedition Matienzo
Rope descent 65m
Rope ascent 65m
Notes

Dropped down the excellent entrance pitch and enjoyed the continental style caving down hige tunnels. The second pitch is fun as you have to drop down a steep slope to it before getting on the traverseline.

Down that we looked at Edge of the world which although big it's not as big as swirl chamber. A bit of route finding through boulders got us into the decorated stuff (La Fantasmos?)

There's lots of holes in the ground, making the passage a bit tretpurous, then we had a 6m climb right up a wall with good handholes but a slimey finish.

We then explored the firmations here and its some of the best I have seen! We must have spent several hours here modelling for Sam's photoshoot.

Finally it was time for out, I ferretted in a couple of crawls (which was our secondary objective) and side passages, nothing more than 10m long. We exited too late for me to do my shopping so another meal at Pablos.