Was originally planning to go from Lancaster hole to Link but due to quite a bit of rain forcased in the later day.
We pulled through Link pot, if the insitu rope was missing from the 88ft pitch we figured we could still get out of Mistral. No one had issues with the tight Link pot pitch which boded well for the rest of the trip. We then ventured through the crawls under the boulders to reach Echo pitch, which was in a good condition, though very stiff rope. A few minor issues at the top for some, such as John abseiling the wrong rope but all was fine.
We were soon through the crawls and going back up the other other pitch well before any flooding was due. While I was waiting for others I checked out the alternative pitch series, which was rigged but the SRT rope? was full of knots for some reason. Yes the lower drop was more of a climb, but not the upper ones. Anyway I abandoned that route as I was not sure what was going on with it and had no idea how well it was rigged or in what condition and rejoined everyone going up the 88ft pitch. Getting off the traverse at the top was difficult for some and prob the crux of the trip, I made myself a "person" belay to help John up, got a nice bruise on my thy for that one.
We then had a look at cape Kennedy and took photos of the formations before returning and continuing the trip through all the chambers and crawls which seemed to take some time before dropping down a ladder (Cannuk climb) and followed the thin stream passage to Stake pot. The rope in stake pot has seen better days!
We headed along the high level traverses, going down and up fall pot, before coming throgh to Bridge hall. Another side trip was made to the colonnades first and then exited Lanc hole to torrential rain! There was no evidence of rain underground, but we did not really hang around at the top. The trip took so long mainly due to photos and the fact there was 5 of us to pass the many obsticles.
