126 Cueva Fresnedo 1
Fresnedo VP53240141 Alt. 135m Length 300m
The bottom entrance is at the end of a dry stream bed. The top entrance is in a brambley shakehole 20m behind. Both entrances draught out strongly.
The cave is basically developed on two levels - the lower stream level soon degenerates into a two dimensional maze of cobbled crawls. Twenty five metres inside the bottom entrance a crawl off to the left unites with the higher level. Emerging up through a rift, the top entrance, a 7m pitch is 5m to the left. To the right various shuffles and crawls lead to a large chamber with three exits. All routes appear as a maze and connections can be made with the lower series.
A frustrating cave, as its position and draught indicate a large amount of unexplored passage. In the summer of '94 a resurvey of the cave could only find 45m with no draughts, confirming what seemed to be the case in 1990.
The entrance to the 7km long Cueva Fresnedo 2 (841) is a smaller entrance 10 metres away.
References: anon., 1978 (logbook);
anon., 1979 (logbook);
Addis F et al, 1979;
anon., 1980a (logbook);
Corrin J et al, 1981b;
Corrin J, 1980;
Mills L D J, 1981;
Corrin J S and Smith P, 1981;
material in file;
anon., 1990b (logbook);
anon., 1994b (logbook)
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