The car park in Bowlees picnic area at the beginning of the walk. There's not that many car's today, however, it gets very busy during the summer months, so be sure to arrive early to get a parking spot

The double waterfall in Bowlees Beck, which you pass on the way to Gibson's Cave

Approaching Gibson's Cave and Summerhill Force through the beech and silver birch woods

Summerhill Force, the cave is the dark area to the right of the falls, it was the hide out of an outlaw in the 16th centuary

I also took a short video clip at Summerhill Force so that you can see the power of the water for yourself, in some circumstances, and especially this one, a still photo doesn't portray the whole image, the sound of water crashing over the falls was almost deafening.
Summerhill Force , I've reduced the quality of the video so that the file size is reasonable for downloading. (Make sure your speakers are turned down first!)

Heading back down towards the car park from Gibson's Cave

Next we walked past the Bowlees Visitor Centre (well worth a visit for loads of great information on the flora and fauna in Teesdale) to get down to the River Tees and Low Force

Looking back towards the visitor centre and the farm cottages as we walked over the fields to the river

Low Force, there is lots of water coming down the river today from the overnight rain

A close up view of Low Force

A view of the series of falls that make up Low Force from the Wynch Bridge

The sheep sculptures beside the Pennine Way at Low Force

The upper falls of Low Force, they are almost covered in water today

A slightly windswept Sheena, waiting for me to finish taking photo's

Tim wasn't best pleased today as I wouldn't let him play in the river as normal, there was far to much water coming down, he'd have been swept away downstream on over the falls!

Normally the stretch of the river between Low and High Force is tranquil, not today it's a seething mass of white water!

This is one of my favourite spots on the river, I like to sit on the rocks and see if I can spot any trout lying in the pools below the falls

Looking back down towards the footbridge over the river, as we headed along to High Force

High Force in all it's glory, normally the falls on the far right aren't there, however, when the river is running very high like today the water run's over that part of the cliff

Looking down at the top of High Force, the force of the water crashing over the fall's was awesome, I did take some more video here, but I can't have saved it onto the camera's memory card as I couldn't find it to download when I got home

The river above High Force, Noon Hill can be seen in the far distance

Tim eventually found a flooded stream to play in as we headed back towards Bowlees and the car