Decepción pot

Alex Ritchie · April 14, 2023, 6 a.m. 4 people · 7 hours and 30 minutes

Cavers Pete Hall, Chris Scaife, James Carisle

Date/time entered Fri 14 Apr 23 — 06:00 2023-04-14 06:00

Date/time exited Fri 14 Apr 23 — 13:30 2023-04-14 13:30

Trip type Survey

Region Matienzo

Country Spain

Clubs NONE

Expedition matienzo

Rope descent 180m

Rope ascent 180m

Surveyed 70m

Notes

Lost my phone!

A trip to survey shrimp bone inlet, got part way along surveying only to drop my phone down a tight rift below out of reach. There was many expletives and failed attempts by me to retrieve it with ropes, bags and hand jammers. In the end I returned to the surface through the grade 4 like cave (2 x 40m pitches too) cut off a flexable tree branch and then returned to the cave with said branch and managed to get it to the location of the lost phone. With this I managed to retrieve my phone and by this point the rest of the team was done with surveying and I headed out again.

Branch remains as a way marker.