A passing snow shower dapples the sky above Lake Seal, centre, and nearby Platypus Tarn.
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan and Gail MacCallum
Ice melt pools around dolerite boulders in Robert Tarn.
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan and Gail MacCallum
High life: Mt Mawson volunteer patroller George Mackay gets some air time while waiting for the Rodway tow to open.
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan and Gail MacCallum
Inside the ticket office at Mount Mawson skifield, Pam Holdsworth demonstrates using a nutcracker towrope.
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan and Gail MacCallum
Eucalyptus regnans with its distinctive peeling bark next to Lady Barron Falls Creek.
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan and Gail MacCallum
Lake Dobson’s shores are dotted with pencil pines estimated to be up to 1000 years old.
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan & Gail MacCallum
Maree Jones and Melanie Peters welcome a steady stream of visitors to the park information centre on a sunny Sunday.
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan and Gail MacCallum
View at dawn looking west towards Mt Field from Karanja.
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan
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.
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan and Gail MacCallum
Beautiful Russell Falls was the original reason land at Mt Field was first reserved in March 1885.
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan & Gail MacCallum
Flowers of the endemic rainforest tree sassafras (Atherosperma moschatum).
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan & Gail MacCallum
Spore bearing capsules – sporangia – on one of the myriad forms of moss that clothe trees and man ferns on the Russell Falls Nature Walk.
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan and Gail MacCallum
Mt Field’s greatest diversity arguably lies in its moss, lichen and fungi species, such as this Stereum ostrea.
Photo Credit: Ian Connellan & Gail MacCallum
The endangered fagus tree (Nothofagus gunnii), more commonly known as Tanglefoot, is Australia’s only cold climate winter-deciduous tree, endemic to Tasmania.
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Geoff Murray
The fagus tree is now mostly found within the Tasmanian World Heritage Area, which includes Mt Field.
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Chris Crerar
Swamp gum (Eucalyptus regnans) on the Tall Trees Walk in Mt Field National Park.
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Geoffrey Lea
The town of Maydena as seen from west Mt Field.
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Richard Bennett
The fagus tree grows along Mt Field’s Tarn Shelf, a series of small glacial lakes.
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Symple Creative
The alpine shelf of Mount Field West.
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Dean Logan
The fagus tree along the Tarn Shelf of Mount Field.
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Michael Walters Photography
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.
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Lynette Graham
While pademelons (Thylogale billardierii) are extinct on mainland Australia, they can be seen throughout Tasmania, including in Mt Field National Park.
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Massaki Aihara
A popular tourist destination at the base of Mt Field, Russell Falls attracted 15,000 visitors last year.
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Michael Walters Photography
Beyond Russell Falls are Horseshoe Falls, an equally beautiful but less visited site.
Photo Credit: Tourism Australia & Graham Freeman
The Parks and Wildlife Service has regular Tall Tree walks throughout Mount Field.
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Michael Walters Photography
A popular tourist destination at the base of Mount Field, Russell Falls attracted 15,000 visitors last year.
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Rob Burnett
One of the first two national parks declared in Tasmania, alongside Freycinet, Mount Field will celebrate its 100th birthday in August 2016
Photo Credit: Tourism Tasmania & Rob Burnett
Several bushwalking paths and tracks exist on Mount Field, including old ‘pack track’ runs from Lake Dobson to Lake Fenton.
Only an hour north-west of Hobart, Mount Field is an enduring favourite of outdoor enthusiasts, with its wallaby-tracked snow fields, lakes and tarns (lakes formed in remnant glacial cirques). In autumn, the deciduous fagus tree erupts into colour across the mountain.
Read about Mount Field’s beautiful peaks and the conservation efforts to protect the 100-year-old national park in AG#132, out now.