Back in August I started a thread about walk gradings and I commented that I'd seen the Lairig Ghru graded ad strenuous.
Well, I didn't, for various reasons, do the full LG but initially I walked as far as the southern flank of Carn a Mhaim. From there I had to turn back but from what I saw of the path ahead I could easily have reached the Corrour Both that evening and continued to Rothiemurchus the next day.
Anyway, I doubled back and stayed at Bob Scott's where three Germans had already warmed the place up with a fire.
The following day I went to Aviemore, sstayed the bight at Rothiemurchus from where I "attacked" the northern approach.
The point I felt I needed to make was that irrespective of the way things turned out I remain confident that had things been different I could have easily completed the whole trek. By pacing myself I never considered the LG to be "strenuous" - and I'm 73 and I was carrying a full 'sac - sleeping bag, sleep mat, stove food and spare clothing etc.
Ah well, next year