Kota 1000/Cavex-Skalarjevo Brezno 2008 - final report
On the 10th february 2008, the international expedition Kota 1000/Cavex Skalarjevo Brezno 2008, having been a part of a speleological project Mt. Kanin -2000 m, finished.
25 speleologists from Czech republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Great Britain, Slovenia and Spain have participated the severe winter expedition. The expedition faced a bad weather, a strong gust wind up to 100 km/hour and a frequent snowing right from the start.
An entrance localization and its digging to open the cave lasted nearly 3 days in up to 10 m thick snow layer. The expedition basecamp was in tents situated in the Konjsko saddleback near P. Skalarj´s cottage, where also a snowy kitchen as well as a dayroom were digged out. The main aim of the expedition was to checkup the Utripov-meander/-900 m, the endpoint break/-911 m and a preparation of the branches “Sleeping dragon” and “Rolling Stone” for further works in a season to come. The three of P. Medzihradsky/SK, A. D. Seddon/GB and P. Polak/CZ checkuped fossil parts of Utripov-meander/-900 m in detail to try to make a further breakthrough into expected spaces verging beyond an underground break. Also a final inspection of the endpoint break/-900 m along with a checkup of further continuation possibilities were carried out. A photodocumentation was carried out. Along with them, also other teams were working in the “Rolling Stone” branch, especially the team of Spanish speleologists Don Sergio Garcia, David Duran, Angelo Duran a Jose from Sevilla. Two underground camps were built in the cave (-520 m/at the bottom of the shaft “Mlaji brat”/p135 and -900 m/the bottom of the shaft “Don´t worry be happy”/p195). The results of the expedition are just being evaluated. The head of expedition: Oldrich Stos/Spider/CZ, the head of underground works: Peter Medzihradsky/Medzo/SK For further information e-mail to: mrspider@tiscali.cz or to kota1000@speleo.cz
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Reported by: Oldrich Stos, Kota 1000 Association
Photo by: Sergio Garcia/E and Sebastian Kovacic/CZ
Translated by: Gabo Lesinsky, Slovak speleological society
Expedition sponsors: CAVEX CLUB, ROCK POINT, SINGING ROCK, GILMONTE, PETZL, PRIMA
From: http://kota1000.speleo.cz/article.php?type=news&id=185