A very comfortable night in the grammar school house, and with the new day .. being overcast and the threat of rain we had to do something off the tops.
We set off up the valley towards high force ... supposedly a spectacular waterfall .. we drove up the car park and I was annoyed that we had to pay for car parking and then also to go down the path to the falls.
The path down to the falls was a gentle gradient, and ended on a viewing platform looking across to the base of the falls.
Spectacular it was, but you could not get to the top on this side .. we would find out later that parking lower down the valley (at low force) and walking up the pennine way would take us to the top for free.
We did not stay long and were soon making our way back towards Barnard castle.
