Turned around on Zugspitze
Today, or actuality around 04:00 last night, I turned around on Zugspitze. The goals was to do the Höllental Klettersteig. We left Grainau at 2 in the morning because the weather forecast predicated thunderstorms in the afternoon. I (an experienced mountaineer with years of experience in the Alps 4000+, trad, via ferrata etc) was “guiding” a super fit friend for who this was the first time in this complex terrain. After having left the Höllentalklamm we checked the forecast again and the Alpen Verein site (still) predicted 15% change of thunderstorm at 8 o’clock in the morning and 30% at 11. HOWEVER all the other sites predicted lighting much later in the afternoon or evening. I predicted we needed another 4-5 at least to summit from where we were. I decided to go down “because a chance of thunderstorm is a chance for thunderstorms” On the way down we encountered other climbers still going up. In the end I believed it did not storm at all.
Did I make the right decision? What would you guys have done?