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 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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There are some fantastic caving videos out there on the web, excellent resolution, interesting, great music, commentary and annotations… the following videos are not them.
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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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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