Great expectations (Stump Cross)

After speaking to John Helm we grabbed the key to this cave. A 17m rope just reached but there's a rub point about 5m which would need some bolts being placed to fix. Once down the pitch I went down the hole to continue, John had a bit of trouble until I showed him how to do it (the ball grabbing technique). We then explored, first downstream the pitch to the sump appeared to have been blocked by a mud fall. The area this way was moderately decorated with the last chamber being the best. We then went the other way and went via the highlevel route, which ended in a 4.4m greasy pitch that John down climbed. I did not like the looks of it so went around and met him 5 minutes later. We carried on down the decorated passage until we found it too blocked by the same clay-like mud. Trip time 2.5 hours.