My understanding is that the entrance to Jailhouse is considered a restriction and is off limits to C1 even now (especially since, for everybody after the first diver, it's done in just about zero viz). There are a lot of T's in there, too, so the penetration for C1 divers (who are only allowed one) is limited. I'm looking forward to diving there after I get through C2 in August (she says, optimistically).
I'm not sure Fred put a distance on "restricted passage", but it was clear that he was trying to make a distinction between a window you can swim through and a long section of passage where you could not turn around. I turned my dive in downstream Dos Palmas at a window that was clearly a short restriction, but I couldn't see that it opened up very much on the other side (and we were 30 minutes into a siphon, anyway).
I can certainly see the logic of putting the cookie on the exit side of a closely grouped set of arrows. The thing with the ones at the Paso de Legarto jump is that there is about two or three feet of line from the double arrows (pointing INTO the cave from our entrance) to a stalagmite where the line is tied and makes a right angle turn, and then about a foot or foot and a half of line to the next arrow (pointing TO our exit). In zero viz, I'd encounter the two initial arrows and have to feel all the way to the stalagmite and around the tie and down the line to the other arrow to find my cookie. I agree that, if I've been paying proper attention, I should remember the whole arrangement and expect to have to do that, but it's not just simply feeling past three markers to the cookies.
Peter and I talked to Fred about cookies and contrary arrows after our Yax Mool dive last year. He said he marks the first contrary arrow, and perhaps the second, but after that, he knows he's in a section of cave where the markers are away from his exit, so he doesn't continue to do that. It made sense to me. But it also makes sense to have multiple team members drop cookies on the first couple, because I have been guilty on multiple occasions of getting so interested in trying to find the jump line that the arrow marks, that I have completely ignored the fact that it's pointing the wrong way (right, Lamont?) Since every team member expects to put a marker down, it's likely SOMEBODY will remember to do it . . . Redundant brains are nice things to have in a cave. (And before anybody lambastes me for this, I've seen Fred do it, too -- nobody is perfect.)
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