random bushwalking trivia

[doogs]

Having recently walked to the mountain Mensa Moor on the Ben Lomond plateau, a thought just occured to me "The start point for the walk was actually higher than than mountain I climbed!". Is this the only mountain in Tas to hold this noble title? and can anyone think of any other similar completely useless trivia they would like to share.

[tasadam]

Having been walking through the rainforest, looking at the ground, and seeing all the Myrtle leaves, my "numbers" head did this...
Roughly 1.5 myrtle leaves to a square centimetre.
Leaves can be up to 10 deep in places at the right time of year
100 x 100 centimetres in a square metre
1000 x 1000 square metres in a square kilometre
Over 100 square kilometres of myrtle forest in Tasmania (this number made up as I don't know)
Give a bit more for the extra myrtle forests I didn't count
Take a bit away for the areas the trees take up, and the areas that aren't 10 deep
Adjust a bit for all the smaller myrtle leaves out there that need more than 2 to fill a square centimetre

There's roughly 15 trillion myrtle leaves on the ground out there.
15,000,000,000,000

Filled up about a minute of think time.

[north-north-west]

Having recently walked to the mountain Mensa Moor on the Ben Lomond plateau, a thought just occured to me "The start point for the walk was actually higher than than mountain I climbed!". Is this the only mountain in Tas to hold this noble title? and can anyone think of any other similar completely useless trivia they would like to share.

Curse you, doogs! I was going to make this point about the Sentinel. Not that it's in Tassie, but the same point applies. One does more climbing on the return than on the way to the summit.

[Turfa]

Here's one that I discovered recently........

If you walk to the most northerly point in Victoria, you will be at the same latitude as Sydney airport !

[doogs]

Here's one that I discovered recently........

If you walk to the most northerly point in Victoria, you will be at the same latitude as Sydney airport !

love it, completely irrelevent, but will stick in my head forever!

[wello]

No trivia Doogs, but I am interested in the route you took to Mensa Moor, and scrub conditions and time etc. It's the last peak I need to complete the Ben Lomond area.

Wello

[ILUVSWTAS]

Wello,
MJD and I did Mensa and all the other 4 peaks on the Northern end last year, took about 8 hrs, we went over Legges, out to Coalmine crag, over Magnet crag and up the obvious ridge to Mensa, we then followed the river back which was a little scrubby, but easy walking could be found most of the way.

It looked a bit like this.....

[Liamy77]

you walk faster easterly than westerly.....

[doogs]

There you go Wello the map I failed to scan for you. I did basically the samew route but clockwise instead of anticlockwise and up piesse vale rather than magnet crag.

[tasadam]

you walk faster easterly than westerly.....

True, but only marginally, like about 10 kph or so...

[Liamy77]

you walk faster easterly than westerly.....

True, but only marginally, like about 10 kph or so...

about double your pace.... you're onto it

[tasadam]

you walk faster easterly than westerly.....

True, but only marginally, like about 10 kph or so...

about double your pace.... you're onto it

Yes, though it depends a lot on what it's relevant to.
Like, where do we sit in our galaxy, and which way round in our galaxy does our solar system rotate? From memory we are on the outskirts a bit, so if the galaxy rotates like planets rotate around the sun, and the directon and speed of such rotation is not known, well, maybe we all walk faster when heading south (it is downhill after all).....

I need coffee.

[Liamy77]

too right.... its like a gynecologist at work once said: "you just have to think outside the box"


hey what about this: a bar of chocolate is worth 20X more on day 5 than day 1...

[wello]

Thanks for the map - very helpful.

It's a bit of a joke that Hamilton Crag is worth a point! Lots of cairn construction work on top.

Wello

[ILUVSWTAS]

Thanks for the map - very helpful.

It's a bit of a joke that Hamilton Crag is worth a point! Lots of cairn construction work on top.

Wello

Pleasure!!

Yeh I know, There was 4 or 5 big cairns up there from memory?? So many good peaks up there that could have a point on them and they put one 15minutes from the road on it...