Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Fri 16 Dec, 2011 11:06 am
Yesterday forum members ILUVSWTAS, pazzar and myself set out to climb Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa. A 5am meeting time was agreed upon, reaching the Adamson's carpark just before 6. We were atop Adamson's by 8:30, cloud shifting around on the ascent. The views were quite poor at this point and the weather was very similiar on The Calf an hour later. The Calf was a highlight for me, its a very rugged little peak. The sheer face of the Adamson's facing side is very impressive. The ridge was then followed back from the Calf, all low sedges until the plateau edge was encountered. Here there is a very nice sandstone shelf, any bouldering nut's wet dream, but a long way to carry a mat.
The mist completely clagged in as we reached Mesa, a rather uninspiring lump, but I imagine the views would be quite unique on a good day. Walking was very open up until the last 290m of Mesa where a nice stand of Dwarf Murtle and a further array of charming species were encountered. As we begun to retrace our route the mist still hung over, but just before the Calf it began to clear. As we rounded the brunt of it we had almost full views, excluding Pindars and PB. Once on top of Adamson's the views were perfect and we lingered a bit before commencing the final slog down to the car. We hit the boardwalk, and the car soon after at about 4, very pleased with our day.
The mist completely clagged in as we reached Mesa, a rather uninspiring lump, but I imagine the views would be quite unique on a good day. Walking was very open up until the last 290m of Mesa where a nice stand of Dwarf Murtle and a further array of charming species were encountered. As we begun to retrace our route the mist still hung over, but just before the Calf it began to clear. As we rounded the brunt of it we had almost full views, excluding Pindars and PB. Once on top of Adamson's the views were perfect and we lingered a bit before commencing the final slog down to the car. We hit the boardwalk, and the car soon after at about 4, very pleased with our day.