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We left the Hunter and rode north to Burning Mountain. It's a natural burning coal seam in a mountain, and you can hike to the top. The terrain differs from the start of the trail to the top, where you can see the effects of the burnt out area. They think the temperature reached 1700 degrees Celsius at some points!

We left Hunter Valley and Hermitage Grange to go to Burning Mountain, and the Lithgow   We need to go this way.   Oh, it's going to be a great day....   Burning Mountain National Park. We had a short 60 hike to the top               The entire mountain is on fire. A coal seam in the mountain itself has been nrning for 5500 years   Yes, over Five Thousand Years!     The terrain was awesome                 The area top left is where the seam is burning currently. You can see and smell the sulphur   A small lookout platform                 You could feel the heat at this point from the ground   The vents where the smoke emerges.   In 50 years this will be covered in red oxide as it regenerates                 Early explorers assumed Burning Mountain's billowing smoke and peak of grey, smoldering ash was an active volcano.

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