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First rapel of 30 meters, WITHOUT the
equipment: harness, carabiners, eight, life-vest nor helmet. |
MATACANES 1969.-
In one of the excursions we often made to
Potrero we had the curiosity to know that was a strong roar that did the
water fall when were walking by the path from Potrero Redondo to Laguna de
Sanchez. We decided to turn aside itself to see that one treated, when
seeing that impressive panorama we asked ourselves if it would be the same
river of Las Adjuntas.
We decided to return to the following
weekend armed with a long cotton rope, we lowered and pass it between the
legs to make the necesary friction, but the slope was very heavy, to the
point that I had myself to undo of my backpack which contained one camara
of shooting which was destroyed. When arriving, we retired the rope and we
advanced in the canyon.
When arriving at the second rapel (upper matacan;
upper cave) we decided that was very dangerous to enter without knowing if
there would be exit, we returned. |
| When they decided to leave the
cave we arrived again at the well-known cascade of 30 meters as Lagunillas.
But we ran with the surprise that was no way to exit the canyon. Desperate
we tried to climb back but was impossible to return, exhausted we did not
had to spend the cold and dark night over rocks with the wet clothes. The
following day we were still but desperate, until in the evening we saw a
passing mule, and begin to shout " HELP, HELP.... "
A good man called Juan came near and
saw us scared and requesting to be rescued. Juan threw us a rope (mecate),
and to make matters worse it wasn´t long enought. " Don Junao hoped
we had to climb to where mecate was....... ". One of us climbed to
where the mecate was and made a knot with out cotton rope. Don Juan and
its mule raised us one by one. All were thanked for the help provided by
Don Juan. The scared experience was forgoten in a few days and we returned
to complete the canyon. |
View of the totally virgin water fall,
full of vegetation in its walls. |
View of the lagoon under the water
fall
down the first rapel, we can observe one of the adventurers in a
inflatable, typical floater of that time. |
We returned days later when a
friend completed the canyon, doing the cave (matacan de arribe) by
climbing over the mountain, discovering that the cave had exit just a few
meters forward. |
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