T350: Torca LaBarga(Torca Vega, CA-1, CA-2, Torca la Barga, E1) |
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Approach | |
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Easy to locate, approx. 1.5 km from Sotres, along the CA-01 road that goes from Sotres to Tresviso. At Invernalles de Caballar possible to park in front of the obvious television mast.
The entrance lies at the NW edge of a 50m wide doline 200m ENE of Invernales de la Caballar, | |
Entrance | |
| A stream sinking at the southern edge of the doline. | |
Description | |
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Three entrances to the cave. The lower (30 T 359141 4788699) one is the most commonly used to access the cave. The entrance opens to a steep ramp of about 20m that ends at the top of an unstable P9.
After the first pitch it is necessary to make a short climb to reach the head of the next pitch, a P12, which is descended to a small ledge oand immedialy onto the next P27 (P12+P27). At the bottom, there is another larger ledge onto a P33, another shelf and a P85. This large pitch, very loose(?) connects at its base with a final P39. At the bottom is a lake of 15m and on the RHS (South) a narrow passage connects with the main horizontal levels of the cave. The lower area is richly ornamented with gypsum crystallizations (miraballite formations up to 4m(?) long.) A further series of pitches, which are accessed by passing through narrow meanders eventually reaches the active main stream passage and the terminal sump at -361m | |
Reference | |
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Speleo Club Alpin Languedocien (1964 - 1965) S.U.S.S. (1972) S.E.B. Escar (2010) T.C.P. (2024,2025) DUBOIS Paul - S.C.A.L. 1964; p 47. GANIVET Andre - S.C.A.L. 1965, pp 25 - 26. JEAN Robert - S.C.A.L. 1965, P 38. DUBOIS Paul - Spelunca 1968, tome VII. fasc 1, p 62 | |
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