The club has a long and distinguished history painted by famous names such as Tom Patey[2] and Andy Nisbet,[3] two of Scotland's most prolific new routers, who learnt their trade in the Lairig.

The most active club members of this time were local Aberdonians Bill Brooker, Tom Patey,[2] James Mike Taylor,[4] Ken Grassick and Graeme Nicol.

Notable achievements by the Lairig Club during this era include: Patey and Gordon Leslie's ascent of Douglas-Gibson Gully on Lochnagar in 1950, the first winter grade V climb in Scotland.

Other than the first ascent of Raven's Gully in Glencoe by Hamish MacInnes and Chris Bonington in 1953 all the grade V routes in Scotland were confined to the Lairig's stomping ground of the Eastern Cairngorms in the early 1950s.

Trips were organised every weekend to bothies in the North East such as Bob Scott's, Corrour and the Glas alt Sheil and occasionally a bit further afield.

The pair were found buried in snow the following day, approximately 10 minutes walk from the Cairngorm Ski Area car park and airlifted to the nearby Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.

[15] An annual running race around Loch Muick is organised by the club to honour their memory and to help raise money for local mountain rescue trusts.