Having noted the impossibility of entering on Cavatorre (cascade of water and ice at the entrance!), we decide to go up near the pace of sheep arriving at the foot of Grondilice, to throw the nose into the hole again opened two weeks ago. The crampons to get up there is long, because even a snow shovel expertly placed across the road blocked for at least two miles downstream from the first refuge! Along the way we see the various defection: and then we get only four and, after a short work of clean-up of debris left by unblocking heavy eachother in the short first stage. It is a terraced slope landslide, that the first leap of the cave (P. 10 under dripping). At the base of the single rope 40 m, which we have already started to dwindle, while the cavity continues with a meander down narrow which is deepened with small jumps (always narrow ...). I can get free in the first two steps, coming out in a wider facing another jump. The air up here very strong, seems to disappear: it is usually not a great sign ... With easy climbing even go down to the last well to observe in fact to have arrived in a cul de sac "means the water can continue its way along narrow
cracks on the floor, the man no! Date back intrigued by the problem of air, increasing the number of eyes in order not to miss even the smallest hole. Arrival until the first bottleneck, where still distinctly remembered having seen the strong hot breath of the mountain, and I realize, from this new perspective, which I shared a wall of rock from a fracture parallel to the one from which I had arrived. The air, indeed, seems to come across from there, only that filters by a landslide on the suspended ceiling indisostruibile! All that remains is disarming back, earning this new disappointment once again a cave that seemed to be a good start has relentlessly rejected.
Again, it will be for next time!
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