Force to Force

High on my daughter’s to do list, before returning to Mongolia, was a trip to High Force, so today she, I and the boy drove over to Bowlees and walked along the Pennine Way from Low Force to beyond High Force and back on a warm sunny day that was the complete opposite of the conditions when we three last trod this route in April 2008, when wind, rain, sleet and finally snow caught us poorly prepared, left us wet and cold, and remains my son’s “worst walk ever”; no complaints on today’s conditions so full attention could be given to the fine river landscape – the busy rapids at Low Force, the mighty drop at High Force, and even a high cascade from a tributary beck further upstream.