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Cova d'en Vidabona

Cova d'en Vidabona

Small cave in the Serra Cavallera (Ripollès), about 280 m WSW of the summit of puig Sestela (2013 m), speleologically unpublished and catalogued in June 2022.

Ogassa • Ripollès 20m 7m

Small cave in the Serra Cavallera (Ripollès), about 280 m WSW of the summit of puig Sestela (2013 m), speleologically unpublished and catalogued in June 2022.

Characteristics

Location

About 280 m WSW of the summit of puig Sestela (or puig Estela, according to maps), about 60 m of elevation difference from the summit. Puig Sestela (2013 m) is the culminating point of the Serra Cavallera.

Leaving Sant Martí d'Ogassa, the steep path begins that after a strong elevation difference should place us at the portella d'Ogassa. Once there, if we were to head west we would reach the summit of the Taga in about half an hour, but we must head east following the ridge trail. The first summit we pass is the puig de Coma d'Olla (1938 m), in the vicinity of which is the cova de Coma d'Olla. We will follow the ridge path for more than a kilometre and when we are only 250 m from reaching the summit of puig Sestela we will leave it at a small secondary col to descend decisively about 40 m of elevation difference towards the south through terrain with a strong slope and without a path. We will find the cave in the lower part of one of the limestone outcrops that stand out among the meadows.

Map

Entrances

Always verify coordinates and access conditions before setting out.

  1. Vidabona, Cova d'en

    Elevation: 1956 m

    42.283218, 2.250961
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 438242 4681494
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

Entrance of 2.5 x 2.8 m. The entrance gallery is 12 m long with the floor slightly ascending and occupied by excrement of goats or isards. The ceiling rises considerably once past the entrance. At the end of the 12 m we find an easy scramble that places us at the start of an ascending gallery that after making a double bend opens out like a small balcony hanging over the entrance gallery, at 4.5 m above its floor.

Progression

At the end of the 12 m we find an easy scramble that places us at the start of an ascending gallery that after making a double bend opens out like a small balcony hanging over the entrance gallery, at 4.5 m above its floor.

Other details

Noteworthy is the presence of the remains of a breccia-type sediment that would surely have filled a good part of the cavity in past times, possibly of periglacial origin.

History

The name of the cave appears lettered on the map of Editorial Alpina “Taga-Serra Cavallera”, at a point slightly further south than where it is actually located. Despite this, the cavity does not appear in any catalogue, for which reason it is a speleologically unpublished cave.

At the end of June 2022, Ferran Cardona and Carme Bañoles (Espeleo Club Muntanyenc Barcelonès) were able to locate it and do the cataloguing work.

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Bibliography

  • Totes les dades, topografia i fotografies han estat extretes del web: geb.cat (del Grup d'Espeleologia de Badalona). Apunt del dia 1-8-2022. Dades: Ferran Cardona i Carme Bañolas (ECMB)

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