Cova de Roset

Large and wide rock shelter, with a rising floor that ends about 16 m from the entrance. At this point, the wall rises about 17 m until reaching an overhanging zone where any possible continuation ends.

To reach the overhanging zone a climb is required, first over good rock and on the final stretch over tufa.

Note from Espeleoíndex: Despite its visibility and dimensions, we have no record of its existence in speleological catalogues.

It now turns out that we have two caves in Saldes with the same name: Roset, and they are not very far from one another. The first of them was explored by members of the GE Badalona in January 1983 and, as the colleague Paco Miret explained years later, in an amusing article that appeared on the blog Espeleobloc (La Cova del Roset, o no – 23-5-2013), they found the cavity by chance, while taking a walk to go and prospect the upper part of the ridge. So they chose to name the cave with the nearest toponym they found on the Editorial Alpina map. It must be said, however, that the toponym Roset only appears on the Alpina maps: les Costes del Roset, whereas on the ICGC map it only says: les Costes. For the moment then, and until more data on the matter is known, two nearby cavities with the same name will have to coexist.