Tresviso 2022 Diving
Two excellent videos from the diving undertaken by Chris Jewell, on this years’ expedition:
Tresviso 2022 Summary
The Tresviso 2022 expedition just returned from Spain a few weeks back. A very busy and successful trip which left little time for updating the blog (again). The following is a summary and the full report will follow shortly. Overview:The 2022 expedition was to continue with ongoing exploration in Andara (Eastern Massif) of the Picos…
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Tresviso 2022 Expedition Overview
Tresviso 2022 Eastern Massif, Picos de Europa, Northern Spain 1st September 2022– 20th September 2022 Overview & brief history: The Picos de Europa is a range of mountains 20km inland from the northern coast of Spain, forming a Westerly extension of the Cantabrian Mountains. It consists of three main areas, the Western, Central and…
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Things to do in a Pandemic (Part 2)
Following on from Things to do in a Pandemic (part 1) another area I have been working on over the past >2 years are updates of the survey repository. In 1996, when I first went out to Tresviso with LUSS, we had no real information on the caves other than the LUSS journals and a…
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Tresviso 2021
Despite best efforts the 2021 expedition did take place with continued exploration in the Cueva del Nacimiento cave in the Urdon Gorge (Tresviso, Cantabria). Expeditions in the previous years have been slowly extending the cave up through the mountain range, with the intention of trying to connect the cave with the known deeper pot holes…
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Through-trip!
Cueva de la Marniosa In the early 1970’s a group of students from Lancaster University Speleological Society (LUSS) touring Northern Spain heard about some caves near Tresviso, Eastern Picos de Europa. In 1975, their first year visiting caves of Tresviso, they explored upstream, into the Sobra valley and found a crack in the side of…
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The times they are a changin’
by Howard Jones Brief history In the 1970’s LUSS were caving in Northern Spain, inland from Santander. They learned about a village where cheese was made and matured in caves. Nearby a resurgence cave fed a hydroelectricity scheme. Add in some high mountains in the vicinity and it was Xmas for cave explorers. Tresviso was…
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Tresviso 2019
The 2019 expedition is only 5 weeks away. Hopefully some interesting blog posts will be created, but firstly, as per previous years, a bit of a brief overview of expedition: Overview & brief history: The Picos de Europa is a range of mountains 20km inland from the northern coast of Spain, forming a westerly extension…
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Updates
Pozo del Castillo After 30 years of a blocked snow plug, preventing access to the lower reaches of Castillo, the snow plug has melted. The previously scary boulder held up by snow, is now held up by air and luck. A 100 year old winch has now been revealed, and more large scary boulders. The…
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