1332 Juan Lombrero, Cueva de
South Vega VN50739529 Alt. 375m Length 933m Depth 142m

Updated 19th February,18th April 1999, 6th December 1999; 14th May 2000; 3rd June 2000; 21st January 2001

The coordinates of the entrance may be slightly wrong.

An opening at the back of the depression. Climb down to the entrance (which can draught out very strongly) where a steep descent on boulders leads to a low, wide passage to a 2m drop into a chamber. A drop on the right leads to sandy crawls, draughting out but becoming too tight.

A small hole leads down into the second chamber. At the bottom several holes draught in but are all too tight.

A too-tight rift has been enlarged and very tight squeeze passed into the side of a pitch, 25m above the floor. Climbing up reaches some rock spikes and an eyehole back into the chamber. Dropping down passes a passage 7m above the floor and at the base there is a hole which needs enlarging to give access to the top of a 25m pitch.

A climb up to the left of the enlarged rift enters passage to a 15m pitch which draughts from a narrow slot at the base. A hading rift enters 8m down. At the pitch there is a route back into the first chamber. The cave was pushed for another 800m in the summer of 1999 and the above description needs tidying up and rewriting.

At the eastern end of the large passage below the second pitch a crawl leads to a 20m pitch dropping into a chamber, Down Under. This slopes down to a huge block, Australia, where a 42m pitch, rigged off the block and a deviation 3m down drops into a chamber about 30m high. At the lowest end routes down in a choke may be close to Breakdown Chamber in Reñada (site 0048), but no way through can be found.

In Down Under, a traverse to the right leads to climbs up a bouldery ramp ending at a large choke. Routes to the left and right (draughting) could perhaps be pushed further.

At Easter 2000, various extensions were made from Hammerless Pot, but not surveyed.

Reference: anon., 1998d (logbook); anon., 1998c (Christmas logbook); anon., 1999a (Easter logbook); anon., 1999c (logbook); Corrin Juan, 2000 (survey); anon., 2000b (Easter logbook)
Entrance picture: top of entrance   down entrance climb 1  2
Underground picture(s): hammering through  maypole  entrance slope  lined climb
base of second pitch  chamber base second pitch   first chamber   ladder up
top first pitch   deviation first pitch   top second pitch   deviation second pitch
near head third pitch   chamber base second pitch
Detailed survey: 1:500 (old)  1:1000 (new)
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