"Giving it a try" should rather read: We would start up and turn around when the conditions forced us to.
Bob, I like that attitude !
here is what two famous British mountaineer-authors said about 80 years ago:
There is no risk in starting early in doubtful weather. (note the italics are his, not mine)
Tom Longstaff,
This My Voyage, page 59
The sooner we go up the sooner shall we meet the sun, or find out that it is not there for the day. Geoffrey Winthrop Young,
Mountain Craft, page 54
