Hassan's Walls

See LARGE.

Here we are next to the trig station at the top of Hassan's Walls in the Lithgow district. Right here (at 4265 feet) we are actually higher than the highest official point of land in the actual Blue Mountains proper (i.e. Mt Piddington).

Lachlan Maquarie named this location on his way west in 1815. He had formerly seen military service in northern India and this landform reminded him of a geographical feature by that name.

The weather was quite cheery today and so I thought it was time for a landscape shot. We are looking east. In the far distance is Mt York on the left while Shipley Plateau is among the ridges on the right.