The 2015 Challenge, day 8: Through the Ghru (8)

As we trudged on, ever upwards, the weather began to close in, and we began to add more clothes to keep warm. Then it was the turn of our waterproofs, including mittens, as the temperature dropped. We stopped for lunch at a little pool (pictured) where the path switches from the left bank to the right bank of the stream (or the right bank to the left bank, in the direction we were headed). A hopeful walker arriving as we sat there eating asked if this was the Pools of Dee. It should have been obvious that it was not, however: the path was still climbing; and the Pools of Dee are beyond the summit of the pass. It is worrying, I think, that so many people seem to be taking to the hills these days without even the basic map-reading and navigation skills required to be able to work out whether the path under their feet should be ascending or descending when they reach a particular feature shown on the map. But I guess this is the price we pay for inventing GPS ...