Skip to main content
Avenc Nou de les Alzines

Avenc Nou de les Alzines

Interessant avenc de 113 metres de fondària al Pla de Sots d'Ossos, Begues.

Begues • Baix Llobregat128m113m

A 113-metre-deep pit at Pla de Sots d'Ossos, Begues, cleared and explored in spring 2010 down to -19 and then to the bottom of the -61-metre Yu-Yui shaft.

Characteristics

Location

Following the track that leaves the paved road of Pla de Sots d'Ossos and goes to Pla d'Ardenya, once past the avenc Gran de les Alzines and before starting the descent towards Creu d'Ardenya we will find a path on the left; following it in a northerly direction, in about a hundred metres it brings us to a doline where remains of an archaeological intervention carried out in 2007 can still be seen. The cavity is on the S side of the doline, next to the vegetation and 24 metres at S20W from the avenc de les Alzines.

For a long time the whole area of influence of the doline where both this cavity and two other nearby cavities (Av. de les Alzines and Av. Pedro Picapiedra) are found has been erroneously catalogued in the municipality of Vallirana, due to the peculiarities of the territorial limits, when in reality they belong to the municipal term of Begues.

Mapa

Entrances

Always verify coordinates and access conditions before setting out.

  1. Nou de les Alzines, Avenc

    Elevation: 524 m

    41.354681, 1.911658
    UTM 31T (ED 50) 409054 4578906
Download all entrances as GPX

Photos

Avenc Nou de les Alzines - Photo, Begues, Baix LlobregatView image
Click to enlarge

Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Image © its author.

Image 1 of 6

Description

Morphology

Through a 2.50x1.50 metre entrance one descends a small pit of -4 metres on a steep slope, which links directly with another pit of -10 metres, bell-shaped and 2 metres in diameter, reaching a small base divided by a rock bridge, which leaves a practicable one-metre opening, through which one can descend to the next pit of -7 metres; this pit links with another of -5 metres, which will leave us in a small and narrow floor where we find two continuations in the form of two small pits of -4 metres. One must follow the one on the opposite side from the one we had been descending, reaching a small chamber where we force a one-metre passage through which one can continue down a pit of -9.5 metres of irregular shape. Once at the base we find a pit of -8.50 metres; in this pit we find partitions and rock bridges, leaving us at the head of the “pou Yu-Yui” of -61 metres and up to 8 metres in diameter. At the base -4 metres have been cleared without finding a continuation for the moment.

Progression

The pou Yu-Yui is equipped with four re-belays.

History

The cavity was cleared and explored in spring 2010 by archaeologists from Castelldefels down to the -19 metre depth, ending the cavity at this point as no apparent continuation was found. Members of SpeleoCorb, having a look around the entrances of the area, discover this new cavity of which there was no record, observing that it had already been explored on finding “spits” at the entrance. On 28 November 2010 they explore the cavity, re-rigging it and removing stones from the bottom for four hours, until a small hole opened through which they calculated that the stones fell about 30-40 metres deep. The following Sunday and after several hours of effort, they manage to widen the passage and descend to the new base, from where they have to remove all the material fallen from the preceding pit. The following weekend they manage to descend to a large rock that blocks the continuation, leaving only a reduced passage, through which when throwing stones they are heard at great depth. The following Sunday they manage to remove the rock, install a 40-metre rope but are left hanging in the middle of a pit 8 metres in diameter without seeing the bottom. They return with a 100-metre rope, managing to reach the bottom of the pit which measures 61 metres of vertical, naming it “pou Yu-Yui” for the impression it made on them the first day when left hanging in the middle of the pit.

Currently work is being done at the base of this pit, where a 2.50-metre-high wall has been built with the accumulated stones, and a protection net has been put in place to prevent their possible fall.

User Comments (0)

No comments yet.

Be the first to share your experience!

Registered Explorations (0)

No explorations registered yet.

Register your visit to this cave!

Bibliography

  1. Valdepeñas, Pedro.(2012).-”L'Avenc nou de les Alzines”. EspeleoCAT (9):34-36. Federació Catalana d'Espeleologia. Barcelona.
  • Fotografies extretes del blog “Espeleobloc” post del dia 3-9-2012.

Source: Espeleoindex (espeleoindex.com), modified. CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/