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Balma Petita de la Cambra dels Bocs

Balma Petita de la Cambra dels Bocs

A rock shelter in Gisclareny, with an entrance porch 12m wide and about 7m high, walls on a steep slope covered in flowstone. Long known in the area, it had never been catalogued speleologically.

Gisclareny • Berguedà 7m 4m

A rock shelter in Gisclareny, with an entrance porch 12m wide and about 7m high, walls on a steep slope covered in flowstone. Long known in the area, it had never been catalogued speleologically.

Characteristics

Location

We will leave the municipality of Bagà and head along the road towards Gisclareny for a stretch of 2 Km, we will leave the main track to follow the one that branches off towards la Dou del Bastareny for a stretch of about 4 Km, we will leave the car before crossing the Monnell bridge, very close to la Dou.

If we take the balma de la Cambra dels Bocs as a reference, the small one is on the same wall of the cliff at about 100m away towards the south and about 50m less in height.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Cambra dels Bocs, Balma Petita de la

    Elevation: 1578 m

    42.284612, 1.778153
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 399261 4682100
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

Rock shelter with a wide entrance porch 12m wide and about 7m high, structured for the most part by walls on a steep slope, leaving very little surface with relatively flat ground.

Speleothems

The walls of the rock shelter are practically covered in flowstone on a steep slope, completely rounded and without edges.

Progression

We will continue on foot along the same track, crossing the Monnell bridge and going up parallel to the river for a stretch of approximately 1 Km, we will leave the track to go up along the Torrent de Vimboca by a path for about 400m, we leave this path and take a somewhat more lost trail marked in blue, which branches off from the torrent in a W direction and passes by the side of the hermitage of Sant Romà d'Oreis in about 540m, the trail continues and within 500m the Cambra dels Bocs is already visible towards the north, at a greater height and at the other end of the channel, the trail continues and will pass to the other end of the channel in about 560m, at this point we leave the trail and head north through the forest, in a stretch of about 660m and a drop of about 300m.

History

Long known in the area, it had never been catalogued speleologically.

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Bibliography

  • “La Cambra dels Bocs” (22-01-2017) de la WEB engarrista.com http://www.engarrista.com/node/859
  • Coordenades, topografia, dades i fotos 'JNC' facilitades per Jordi Navarro i Montse Mañosa (Centre Excursionista de Castellar del Vallès).

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