Gouffre Degaudez

A 19-metre pit gives access to a weakly active meander. The bottom consists of a piece of meander a little narrower that ends at a ridiculous muddy sump.

A few metres before the end of the meander, the water is left on the right.

A 19-metre pit gives access to a weakly active meander that is followed along the bottom and to its end. A few metres before the end of the meander, the water is left on the right to descend a pit located in the line of progression. In this P18, it is essential to pendulum to the right onto a fine ledge. One then descends about ten metres by climbing down to arrive at the top of the pit du dentifrice. The rigging described here is that located on the right wall of this pit.

At the bottom of this pit, after a few metres in boulders that overhang the meander, one arrives at a 18-metre pit at the bottom of which the meander must be taken by ascending slightly for about ten metres. One then descends to the bottom of this meander by climbing down. Two parts of the descent can be rigged. At the bottom of the meander, one emerges at a 8-metre pit directly followed by a 19-metre pit. At the bottom of the latter, one must ascend 3 or 4 metres to follow a subhorizontal traverse for 25 metres in the meander (be careful not to descend into the bottom of the meander). One must then take a very dry and dusty meander on the left which leads, after two small downclimbs on old flowstone, to a series of pits in succession (10, 9, 13). In the last pit one must move downstream in the meander to find a comfortable pit head. At the bottom of this pit, one reaches the meander at the bottom of the Degaudez in which one progresses most often along the bottom, rarely above boulders.