I suggested Illusion Pot as due to the rope situation the only other alternative seemed to be Wretched Rabbit.
We got down into the cave to find it very drippy. We reached the Duck but towards the end it had no air space and had become a sump. As I could not remember how long it was, we decided to bail it.
After 15 minutes of bucketing fun Mike S and me passed through the duck. Dan and Mike W decided to bail it some more before coming through, wimps’ lol.
I led everyone up stream first to look pretties where after a dodgy (According to Dan) climb is passed you get into the pretties properly. GREAT CARE is needed in this passage, as this is one of the best-decorated passages in the Dales. After taking a couple of photo’s better ones will be taken on a return trip, we headed to the downstream sumps.
After examining both we decided to try and do Perfidia, but we did not know where it was. The first crawl we tried was mainly all flat out (tick) but it split into two passages after approx 50 metres or so where both quickly choked. The blockages where digable if you are masochistic. The second crawl we tried again was flat out this time with a couple of squeezes thrown in. But after 70 metres or so this brought us out into one of the main chambers we walked through earlier. I believe this crawl was called Vandal Passage or something like that.
In the end we did not find Perfidia unless it was the first blocked crawl we tried, but we burned off quite a few calories in the search.
I think everyone enjoyed the trip and the enjoyed it more as the duck/sump was still open and we did not have to bail it from the other end, which would have been quite difficult.
