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Area C

This seems to be the area between Boca el Joon and la Verdelluenga. There is no information available for caves C1 and C2.

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C3 Sima Verdelluenga
Location: Uphill from La Jayada. Bearings: Cabeza Llambria, 67.5${}^\circ$; Cuvicente, 94.5${}^\circ$; El Regallon, 355.5${}^\circ$. Just below the ridge on the Ario side, a 10m x 4m cleft containing the shaft mouth, just below a subsiduary ridge.
Description: See 1994 and 1995 expedition reports.

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C4 Playschool Pot
Location: 43${}^\circ$13' 40'' N, 1${}^\circ$15' 10''W. At the same altitude as C3, further over on the ridge towards La Verdelluenga. A subsiduary spur of the mountain meets and crosses the ridge, and in the fold between them is the rock-filled pit containing the entrance. A bit below 16/9 on the (true) left hand side of the valley in an area of karst with lots of blind shafts. Cuvicente 106${}^\circ$, second summit of Cuvicente 122${}^\circ$.
Description: See 1996 expedition report.

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C5
``10-15m pitch with Gavin's sunglasses at the bottom.'' This is the same cave as C4.

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C6
Location: Gustuteru 328${}^\circ$, Jultayu 263${}^\circ$, Robliza 173${}^\circ$.
Description: A 17 m shaft to a choke.

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C7
Location: Gustuteru 352${}^\circ$, Jultayu 286${}^\circ$, La Verdelluenga 118${}^\circ$.
Description: A snow plugged shaft.

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C8
See 1994 Expedition report.

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C9
This is the same cave as C3.

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C10
Location: The cave is slocated down slope from C3; there is a small knoll containing a depresion: the cave lies inside this.
Description: Narrow slit leads, after 4m climb, down to small chamber; two 2m climbs down lead to the head of a 13m pit into a boulder filled chamber.

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C11
Location: Regallon 28${}^\circ$, Cuvicente 268${}^\circ$.
Description: A man sized hole was opened in a bouldery rift. A 20m pitch is followed by a vertical constriction, which bells out into a 20m pitch, landing in a chamber with a boulder floor. No way on.

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C12
Location: 200m lower than C3.
Description: A big hole filled with snow. No way on found.

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C13
Location: On the east side of La Rena, just below the fault line which crosses La Rena up ridge of El Regallon. The entrance is a long rift trending NE/SW (8m by 2m) with a rock bridge.
Description: A 20m pitch rigged from a bolt on the rock bridge lands on a snow plug. Climbing 5m leads to a second 20m pitch landing on a boulder floor with a small draughting hole. A small window 5m above floor can be penduled into but becomes too tight.

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C14
Location: On the east side of La Rena, 100m from C13 on a bearing of 054, NE of C16, on the left side of the main fault from La Verdelluenga to Tras la Jayada. The cave is a rift in the top of the plateau between El Regallon and La Jayada which continues under the surface on a boulder floor.
Description: The cave continues and drafts out.

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C15
15m below C14 and 6m towards El Regallon, an undescended shaft in the rift.

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C16
Location: From new Top Camp head through the pass in La Rena and follow evident rift (terminating at C14).
Description: C16 is a 15m deep section of rift with steep walls and chocked boulders. A draft can be felt from the boulder floor.

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C17
30m from C13 on a bearing of 152.5. The entrance has a characteristic large rock bridge.

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C18
Location: 10m below last peak of La Rena, bearings Cuvicente 121.5 and Cabeza Llambra 75.
Description: A 14m diameter shaft, partly filled with snow, ending in a drafting boulder choke.

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C19
On main ridge from La Verdelluenga to Cuvicente, 10m below C8.

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C20
Location: In shakehole on Top Camp side of C9, at point nearest C9.
Description: A 4m climbable shaft leads down into a small entrance chamber. A short floor level crawl leads in to a second chamber. A further crawl on the opposite wall leads through a sharp right turn to a small choked chamber. A slot in the floor leads down a fifteen metre pitch to a rift with steeply sloping boulder floor. At down slope end the rift becomes too tight but stones can be thrown through a gap in the boulders and fall some distance. Digging is awkward but some progress was made to enlarging the hole.

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C21
Near western col of Cuvicente-La Verduluenga ridge. 10m NW of C9, on the E edge of shakehole.

10m pitch. Bottomed.

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C22
Location: Down the ridge E of El Regallon(?). Alt 1773m, 43.13.8N, 004.56.2W
Description: Small hole in base of shakehole with incredibly faint draft.

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