Pete Ball paddling Salmon Leap Falls (AKA Dogleg) on the Upper Tees in fairly
high water. Pete is in a Pyranha H2zone 245.
Apologies if you have previously followed a link to this page and found it missing - I got interrupted months ago and never remembered that I was building this page :-( And it looks as though I have failed to upload it to the main www.pennine.demon.co.uk site for a further three and a half years. By which time it has been seriously superseded: There is now a much more comprehensive index to ALL the photos of SOC river trips on my own server (although that is not supposed to be indexable by search engines).
Pete Ball paddling Salmon Leap Falls (AKA Dogleg) on the Upper Tees in fairly
high water. Pete is in a Pyranha H2zone 245.
Pete Bridgstock paddling Low Force, a little further down the Upper Tees, on
the same day, same sort of boat, different colour.. For the price of a slow
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Tony Hammock in the Photo that made the cover of the BCU "English White
Water" Guidebook. It seems that every guidebook that covers this area
has a photo of this rapid, often on the cover, as every photographer that
paddles the river finds it irresistably photogenic. Needless to say, I was
dead chuffed that it was my photo that got chosen for this one :-)
And to make sure everyone gets a piccy, here is Clive Hall (previous SOC
Canoeing Section Leader), on the same rapid, same day, in a Pyranha InAZone,
taking probably the best line of any of the group that day. Again, for a slow
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Lower down the Tees at Barnard Castle is a weir which can be nasty, although all but the potentially fatal centre chute is benign in low water. In higher water, the fish ladder provides an entertaining bypass to the main stopper. Richard Wormald in his Topo gets some down time:
The weather was moderately wet, and the river looked fairly full at Rothbury, but was a shade low up on the moors. By Corkscrew Falls, it felt full enough, but the shingle rapids below this were tedious.
Under Construction [dsc00516 Clive in upper reaches]
[dsc00517+518 Pete on Corkscrew Falls]
