A passing snow shower dapples the sky above Lake Seal, centre, and nearby Platypus Tarn.

Ice melt pools around dolerite boulders in Robert Tarn.

High life: Mt Mawson volunteer patroller George Mackay gets some air time while waiting for the Rodway tow to open.

Inside the ticket office at Mount Mawson skifield, Pam Holdsworth demonstrates using a nutcracker towrope.

Eucalyptus regnans with its distinctive peeling bark next to Lady Barron Falls Creek.

Lake Dobson’s shores are dotted with pencil pines estimated to be up to 1000 years old.

Maree Jones and Melanie Peters welcome a steady stream of visitors to the park information centre on a sunny Sunday.

View at dawn looking west towards Mt Field from Karanja.

In the Pandani Grove on the shores of Lake Dobson, the trail wends through Pandani – the world’s largest heath, at at least 4m high.

Beautiful Russell Falls was the original reason land at Mt Field was first reserved in March 1885.

Flowers of the endemic rainforest tree sassafras (Atherosperma moschatum).

Spore bearing capsules – sporangia – on one of the myriad forms of moss that clothe trees and man ferns on the Russell Falls Nature Walk.

Mt Field’s greatest diversity arguably lies in its moss, lichen and fungi species, such as this Stereum ostrea.

The endangered fagus tree (Nothofagus gunnii), more commonly known as Tanglefoot, is Australia’s only cold climate winter-deciduous tree, endemic to Tasmania.

The fagus tree is now mostly found within the Tasmanian World Heritage Area, which includes Mt Field.

Swamp gum (Eucalyptus regnans) on the Tall Trees Walk in Mt Field National Park.

The town of Maydena as seen from west Mt Field.

The fagus tree grows along Mt Field’s Tarn Shelf, a series of small glacial lakes.

The alpine shelf of Mount Field West.

The fagus tree along the Tarn Shelf of Mount Field.

Tarns, or mountain pools, litter Mt Field. They are formed when rain or river water fills a hole or cirque once filled by a glacier.

While pademelons (Thylogale billardierii) are extinct on mainland Australia, they can be seen throughout Tasmania, including in Mt Field National Park. 

A popular tourist destination at the base of Mt Field, Russell Falls attracted 15,000 visitors last year.

Beyond Russell Falls are Horseshoe Falls, an equally beautiful but less visited site.

The Parks and Wildlife Service has regular Tall Tree walks throughout Mount Field.

A popular tourist destination at the base of Mount Field, Russell Falls attracted 15,000 visitors last year.

One of the first two national parks declared in Tasmania, alongside Freycinet, Mount Field will celebrate its 100th birthday in August 2016

Several bushwalking paths and tracks exist on Mount Field, including old ‘pack track’ runs from Lake Dobson to Lake Fenton.