After several months away from Spain Jim and I could take the suspense no longer. We returned to Matienzo, our goal being to find where the water flows into lake Buttermere in the Toca la Vaca system.
We might have been in the south of Spain, and it might have been sunny, but it was really, really cold.
We decided to escape the horrible November weather and have a week bolt clipping in El Chorro.
This autumn's pre-winter trip was to the politically Spanish but geographically north African Canary Islands.
The Penon de Ifac dominates Calpe, Costa Blanca, and Diedro UBSA is the classic route on the vast south face.
Having found a muddy chamber yesterday we dived in through to Whitworth series with only one O-ring related incident which was quickly sorted.
Having had to walk away from the upstream sump in the Whitworth series in Torca La Vaca when we ran out of time on our previous visit to the Matienzo area both Jim and I were keen to return.
Or was it the rain?
Getting into the water the hard way...
