
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Small cave in the Serra Cavallera (Ripollès), about 280 m WSW of the summit of puig Sestela (2013 m), speleologically unpublished and catalogued in June 2022.
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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Small cave in the Serra Cavallera (Ripollès), about 280 m WSW of the summit of puig Sestela (2013 m), speleologically unpublished and catalogued in June 2022.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
Length: 20 m · Depth: 7 m
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Small cave in the Serra Cavallera (Ripollès), about 280 m WSW of the summit of puig Sestela (2013 m), speleologically unpublished and catalogued in June 2022.
Topographic
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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 Despite this, the cavity does not appear in any catalogue, for which reason it is a speleologically unpublished cave.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)
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