258 Torcón de la Calleja Rebollo (Toad in the
Hole)
Seldesuto 30T 0448882 4795273 Alt. 300m Length 7386m Depth -95m
The following segment of description removed from main
text (1st July 2007) after major updated description from Phil
Rowsell.
Right at Sandy Junction leads to pitches up of 8m and 5m (single ropes in
place). These lead to the Lost Series where a couple of routes lead
to Saville Row, a large chamber. Several routes via short climbs up
and a large aven, connect to a 4m pitch up (single rope in place) to Two
Owls Passage. A rope was installed on the traverse in the main route
beyond here at Easter 1998. In 1997, small extensions were made in the area
of Saville Row.
In 1998, extensions off Patrick's Silly Passage - the Peardrop
Series - were explored. A squeeze leads to a roped traverse and a climb
up of 4m in a draughting passage to a 6m pitch and a 5m pitch (which can
be bypassed) into a 6m wide chamber which chokes in both directions.
First Return is the first junction after Fossil Chamber. An awkward passage
enlarges at a junction, where left leads back to the main route. Right is
the way on, ending in a chamber. This was pushed in 1999 across a bold step
off a precarious poised slab. Beyond, 2 pitches are undescended. A tight
rift enters a tall cross rift left open in both directions, to the right
at a drop into the base of a large aven.
In 1999 the large Fossil Chamber back on the main route was surveyed
and was found to contain a couple of 100m+ avens. In Two Owls Passage,
before the traverse, a couple of pitches were dropped; one, a very muddy
11m blind shaft; two, rigged off the traverse line on the main route, is
a climb down to a 10m pitch which chokes to the left and to the right goes
5m to a window to a further 5m drop, undescended.
Easter 2007 extensions
A systematic re-exploration and push was made from the end of the cave. The
most significant find descended to the north for 600m. (Description to come).