Cradle Mountain, Lake St Clair National Park: Trekking Tasmania's Overland Track in winter

By Dugald Jellie
Updated May 15 2015 - 2:26pm, first published 2:00pm
Through the snow to kitchen hut, on the flank of Cradle Mountain. Photo: iStock
Through the snow to kitchen hut, on the flank of Cradle Mountain. Photo: iStock
Walkers go Indian file along the side of Cradle Mountain. Photo: John Braid
Walkers go Indian file along the side of Cradle Mountain. Photo: John Braid
Through the snow to kitchen hut, on the flank of Cradle Mountain. Photo: iStock
Through the snow to kitchen hut, on the flank of Cradle Mountain. Photo: iStock
The view through a lattice of snow . Photo: John Braid
The view through a lattice of snow . Photo: John Braid
Dinner at Barn Bluff Hut on Overland Track.
Dinner at Barn Bluff Hut on Overland Track.
Birds provide splashes of colour to a mostly white world. Photo: John Braid
Birds provide splashes of colour to a mostly white world. Photo: John Braid
Through the snow to kitchen hut, on the flank of Cradle Mountain. Photo: iStock
Through the snow to kitchen hut, on the flank of Cradle Mountain. Photo: iStock
Walkers go Indian file along the side of Cradle Mountain. Photo: John Braid
Walkers go Indian file along the side of Cradle Mountain. Photo: John Braid
Through the snow to kitchen hut, on the flank of Cradle Mountain. Photo: iStock
Through the snow to kitchen hut, on the flank of Cradle Mountain. Photo: iStock
Walkers go Indian file along the side of Cradle Mountain. Photo: John Braid
Walkers go Indian file along the side of Cradle Mountain. Photo: John Braid

On the sixth day it snowed. Inky clouds from the west dropped rain, drumming hard on the hut roof before cold air from the south came at midnight, blowing from Antarctica, from world's end, turning the night sky silent with perfect snowflakes. Snow fell all morning and through the day and into the dark, and beyond, as if never knowing how to stop.

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