B28
An underground route begins with a passage between blocks and leads to meanders, a pit and galleries carved in the black Urgonian.
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B28
An underground route begins with a passage between blocks and leads to meanders, a pit and galleries carved in the black Urgonian.
Samoëns
Length: 40 m · Depth: 25 m
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An underground route begins with a passage between blocks and leads to meanders, a pit and galleries carved in the black Urgonian.
Description
Morphology
From the surface, one must squeeze between blocks to reach a crossing. On one side, following a bedding joint, one arrives at the top of a meander 60 cm wide; after 5 to 6 m, the meander widens. One then reaches the top of a pit, which must measure 5 to 6 m. On the other side, it is possible to travel for about ten meters along another, larger meander, carved in the black Urgonian, veined with white.
Progression
At the top of the pit, two possibilities present themselves: a slight climb gives access to a gallery that rock bridges quickly make impassable; below the climb is a descending meander, also quickly impassable. However, on the small ledge of the first step of the meander, an opening barely as big as a fist gives access to what seems to be a void (falling stones). In the other meander, a 2 to 3 m step is descended by climbing, but the bottom is choked by a collapse. Slightly higher up, a window allows access to a meander, also choked by collapse, which lets a blowing draught filter through.
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Contains information from Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/485 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected] · data as of 2026 · Source: Grottocenter (Association Wikicaves), worldwide collaborative cave database (grottocenter.org), modified. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Grottocenter (Wikicaves) · Text by GS Vulcains · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/485 · data as of 2026