10 June

Following up on my post yesterday about elevation of various towns in the area, here's the topographical map I'm using, which is incredible fun. Zoom in and out and click at different points to get elevations. The highest occupied land in the Lithgow and Blue Mountains area is (I think) Clarence. Which, for the pedants, is Lithgow. Lithgow also has the highest elevation unoccupied land. Lithgow's train station and main road is in its valleys, not on its ridges, unlike Blue Mountains villages, which are the reverse, and is where their elevation is measured. All of them are lower than Clarence even at their ridges anyway (where very few if any people live), and several suburbs of Lithgow are also higher than 950m . If you take the Bell's Line into the mountains, it's downhill the whole way.