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Grays and Torreys are closer to a 3000 foot gain. You lose something like 900' in altitude when backtracking to the saddle for the official trail hike to do both.

Take lots of water and definitely grab some ibuprofen or Tylenol because you're going to need it. We used our time in Colorado to acclimate for a trek in Philmont and did the pair of 14ers to get ready for Baldy there on the reserve. We had been staying at Ft. Carson, which is almost the same altitude at Denver, but you're nearly 9,000 feet higher on top of those mountains. I think I was probably around 13,000 feet when the headache hit, and I was in good shape back then. 17 years old without an ounce of fat on me.

I did Gray's and Torrie's peaks in one day. There's a saddle ridge between the two that makes it a quick and "easy" pair because you don't lose a bunch of elevation with the saddle.

scotchyscotch wrote: Nethy-Bridge and Steathclyde are natural enemies. You'll die for this Abernethy!

Ehem, that's LAIRD Abernethy to you! Also, please don't attack, the castle is very old and quite crumbly. Wouldn't want to ruin all that history would ya?

The interesting thing is that Castle Roy was a Grant stronghold while the Abernethy sur-name is usually tied to Leslie or Fraser. Also, there were two Abernethys in Scotland at one point. Nethy Bridge was originally Abernethy but had its name changed due to the need to differentiate the two towns with respect to train routes and schedules. The Abernethy that kept the name is in Perth and Kinross and located on Nethy Burn near its confluence with the Firth of Tay. Meanwhile, the Abernethy on the actual RIVER Nethy (not just a tiny creek) got changed to Nethy Bridge.

This makes the whole genealogy thing really tough when we try to trace back from our ancestors that spent less than a generation in County Antrim before heading to the colonies. There's a rather neat but small round tower at Abernethy Perth and Kinross along with a sizeable fragment of a Pictish stone. We have a beautiful rubbing of it framed at my house.

Wow.  Haven't been here in years.  Surprised the forum is still up and running.  Not very many posts which I guess is to be expected.

Scotchy must henceforth refer to me as "Laird Abernethy" because I just 'bought' a square yard of land in the courtyard of Castle Roy in Nethy Bridge.

I expect him to promptly tell me to go boil my head and call my wife a cow in the most ancient and proper ways of Scottish protocol.

Edited by spydercam - 22 January 2022 at 8:09pm

tallen702 wrote: They pay for the upkeep, but I don't think the parent company even knows that they're paying for it.... We're in limbo.

Been a while.. did they just make everyone a MOD now? 

Yeah so I have covid so I'm in Manchester on my own for Christmas. 

So I'm pretty much where I left off last time I checked in.