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Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Fri 16 Dec, 2011 11:06 am
by mjdalessa
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.
- Adamson's on the ascent
- Looking back; ascending Adamson's
- The cloud drifted in and out, revealing the ridge to the Calf
- The Calf looms above
- Typical walking featuring The Calf
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Fri 16 Dec, 2011 11:27 am
by mjdalessa
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Fri 16 Dec, 2011 11:32 am
by mjdalessa
- These were also in abundance past The Calf
The weather had conveniently cleared....
- Adamson's on return
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Fri 16 Dec, 2011 2:53 pm
by whynotwalk
Nice work Marco. Looks like you took advantage of mixed weather to get close to some of the smaller "scenery". I particularly like the second sundew image,
cheers
Peter
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Fri 16 Dec, 2011 2:57 pm
by stu
Nice report & photos Marco, thanks for sharing.
Yes, the views from Mesa are pretty good, PB looks quite close from there (below)...
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Fri 16 Dec, 2011 5:18 pm
by ILUVSWTAS
How'd you pull up?? My knees feel shattered. You forget how stepp that Adamsons track is!
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Fri 16 Dec, 2011 5:54 pm
by pazzar
My knees were pretty wrecked too - I struggled running up the stairs at work.....
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Fri 16 Dec, 2011 7:33 pm
by mjdalessa
Surprisingly they feel fine haha
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sat 02 Mar, 2013 5:57 pm
by Strider
ILUVSWTAS wrote:How'd you pull up?? My knees feel shattered. You forget how stepp that Adamsons track is!
Oh God. And I'm walking it tomorrow. Round is a shape, right?
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sat 02 Mar, 2013 7:37 pm
by stepbystep
Strider wrote:ILUVSWTAS wrote:How'd you pull up?? My knees feel shattered. You forget how stepp that Adamsons track is!
Oh God. And I'm walking it tomorrow. Round is a shape, right?
Off to Mesa? You'll be sore alright.
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sat 02 Mar, 2013 7:40 pm
by Strider
stepbystep wrote:Strider wrote:ILUVSWTAS wrote:How'd you pull up?? My knees feel shattered. You forget how stepp that Adamsons track is!
Oh God. And I'm walking it tomorrow. Round is a shape, right?
Off to Mesa? You'll be sore alright.
No, just Adamson's this trip..
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sat 02 Mar, 2013 7:53 pm
by stepbystep
Ah magic day walk. If you have time traverse the ridge. The views from the other end are magnificent!
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sat 02 Mar, 2013 8:11 pm
by frenchy_84
and if its bad weather, your not at the summit until the big cairn
you dont want to experience premature summit elation
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sat 02 Mar, 2013 8:52 pm
by Strider
frenchy_84 wrote:and if its bad weather, your not at the summit until the big cairn
you dont want to experience premature summit elation
I've been told not to summit if bad weather, due to a lack of shelter at the top and the risk of getting stuck. How bad is it up there?
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sat 02 Mar, 2013 8:54 pm
by Strider
stepbystep wrote:Ah magic day walk. If you have time traverse the ridge. The views from the other end are magnificent!
See how we go! Both of us are seasoned walkers, but well and truly unfit currently. The slow plod might hopefully get us out there
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sat 02 Mar, 2013 8:57 pm
by frenchy_84
Strider wrote:I've been told not to summit if bad weather, due to a lack of shelter at the top and the risk of getting stuck. How bad is it up there?
?? Same as most Tas mountains, the track is easy enough to follow in poor vis, when we did it we had 15m visibility and got to a small outcrop which we assumed was the summit as we couldnt see anything higher, until someone got the GPS out to see we had another 100m vertical or so to go
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sat 02 Mar, 2013 8:57 pm
by stepbystep
Weather looks perfect for you. Once on the plateau just use common sense. It's an easy mountain to get off if weather is crap.
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sat 02 Mar, 2013 9:04 pm
by Strider
Ok sounds easy enough! Should have a map but only decided today we were going to tackle it.
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sat 02 Mar, 2013 9:25 pm
by Nuts
Nice pics. Like the macro/sundews.
My knees ache in sympathy.
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sat 02 Mar, 2013 9:55 pm
by Strider
Nuts wrote:Nice pics. Like the macro/sundews.
My knees ache in sympathy.
Stop it with the aching legs comments guys!
Re: Adamsons, The Calf and Mesa
Posted: Sun 12 Jan, 2014 7:35 am
by Strider
Just stumbled across this thread again. It's a calf buster, alright!