Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Yacht For Sale Exeter

purgatory, and Tropea Refuge Zubbia San Vito 15 and 16 July 2010

7:30 pm, Central Station: the final participant recovered and placed in the machine stuff and people in tetris style, it's off to the Purgatory Chasm. Obviously could not miss the stop at the source and its breakfast of cassatelle!
parked our car, we dress and we walk towards the entrance.




Gregory began to arm the first well while Louise and I, enslaved by Simon, we learn to spin ropes. Begins its descent, before Gregory followed by Luisa Simone and me, and then continue to the first shaft 60, wisely split about half-way, where among other things was cheerfully pausing a dead mouse. We arrive at the base where we can admire for a few minutes Vespino, munching nuts and developing theories about how it can be done there. We face the ultimate shaft 60 and arrived at the bottom and take a short lunch of sandwiches lovingly prepared by me. After a short walk through beautiful medusoni and begins the ascent of calcite concretions: Luisa in "pole position", expresses some doubt that the semi-static rope was too "dynamic", which even then I found a few minutes later I when I found myself going up and down like a yo-yo. Exhausted by fatigue, but happy (especially me and Louise we both started for the first time wells of 60), we leave the cave, even though the heat suggests that we should stay, and collected all the pieces back to the car.




With "The Barber of Seville" as background music take off suits, harnesses and, having exchanged a few words with a native, we head to Macari, where we find a beautiful promenade virtually deserted and we take advantage to give us a bath and rest a while 'before you pitch your tent.



The evening ends of the thousand theories Luisa and a nice roasted chicken and caddozzi of sasizza.



The next morning at 5.30 we are already on their feet, more or less awake. Time to dismantle the camp we had azzizzato efficient and we move to the Zubbia San Vito. With botanical goodies Simone almost immediately identify the entrance and armed us caliamo input shaft inside the cave. We enter a little 'to the case in the many corridors and stumble upon a thread of Ariadne begin to follow him. Meanwhile Louise shows off her new step in the sole between the beach and a "no pitch" and the other, and a thousand ringleaders and back to the stalactites abandon Ariadne's thread to continue a little longer '.



Dopo circa un'ora e mezza che ci aggiriamo tra corridoi vari decidiamo di tornare indietro...piccolo problema: da dove???? i fili di Arianna cominciano a moltiplicarsi, le sale sembrano sempre più simili tra loro. A turno andiamo in esplorazione nelle varie direzioni, andiamo avanti poi torniamo indietro mille volte.



Dopo mooolto tempo ecco l'illuminazione: finalmente arriviamo in una sala familiare e da li a poco ritroviamo quello che ci sembra il percorso dell'andata, anche se ormai le perplessità sono d'obbligo. E superato un liscione la vediamo: LA LUCE!!!!! Ancora una volta soddisfatti e anche un po' divertiti dalla piccola adventure we leave the cave and go back to the car.



Before returning to Palermo, but we make a stop in San Vito where to take the opportunity to take a refreshing swim and eat pizza with a very useful tool known as "prendipizza.

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Friday, July 2, 2010

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Zubbione Pizzuta -

Same time, same place of appointment, the same ritardario ....

Now that we all, myself, Simon, Nemo, Nina and Albert are ready to go in search of the lost and the GPS Pizzuta we hope to find it. Yes, because the luck in the last two releases we had not helped much, since two outputs on two we managed to get into the cave. Also this time we had some problems with the car but fortunately Simon Nemo's car was sufficient to keep the feet of our desired cave.

Finally we are all around the machine to get dressed and prepare the various bags, but some show their latest purchases trying to convince everyone that this is the most useful thing in the world. Ready! The sun is hot but there is a slight wind that lightens up the steep climb, some short stop, a visit to the Garrone can not miss and here we continue towards the pizza.


Now the path begins to be more pleasant, the path is beaten and now we are almost never share. The path ends and we begin to bump into brambles and weeds growing tall, each is from a different side and me and Nina try to chase that Nemo is the person closest to the eye can see.

walk, descend, climb, suddenly, they stop all, you hear a voice, maybe we could find the entrance only from our position that we do not see that Simon was right there and then we follow her voice, after we are also a few minutes before the break we long sought, it could be a splendid view, the absence of trees in front of you can admire all Piana degli Albanesi on his right the beautiful lake. I walk that I preferred to dress fresh start, Simon began to arm and by Nemo's advice. It 's all ready seems incredible, but finally you enter the cave.

Once inside the only thing that we appreciate immediately is the temperature outside was terribly hot inside while you are really good. You stop waiting for it all go down the first pit, Simone continues to arm the meantime, Nemo collects water droplets and Albert began to recommend all the caves that come to mind. Continue the path and after several slips made with the seat to avoid falling of the lakes come to the room .... What a wonderful place!

whole leg made up paying for the lovely room, light the acetylene also made things even better. After the photo memory and also collected the droplets here we stopped to eat a little something and soon after Nina and I have received a small lesson in knots ... The cold began to do now but to be felt then began the ascent. A over time, satisfied, we are moving towards the car, but either our men bowed to pick something up when they got up and had a bunch of oregano on hand throughout the descent went multiplying.
Once the machines before returning home, we can not skip the cannoli stage in the country, and so once we sit down and after we had eaten more or less a cannoli and drinking a glass of tea back home satisfied and happy for our first out with the group.



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Nemo, Simone, Alberto, Antonella (Nina) and Lu-
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