More than a day after widespread snowfall across Tasmania police are continuing to rescue people they did not even know were stuck.
At about 1pm on Tuesday, a helicopter winched nine adults and a child to safety from a national park northwest of Hobart where they had been stranded since Sunday.
Four of the people had taken shelter in a hut and details of the others are yet to be released.
"All persons were in good condition and spirits," police search and rescue spokesman Michael Preshaw said.
The groups had been snowed in at Lake Dobson at Mount Field National Park, where there was significant snowfall overnight on Sunday.
It is the same national park where police spent Monday trying to reach two men whose car was snowed in.
Hazardous conditions thwarted attempts to reach the pair by snowplough and helicopter, and after almost 24 hours a team on foot used chainsaws, a tractor and a large truck to make it through six kilometres of snow to reach the men.
Police rescue sergeant Paul Steane said there was a lot of soft snow and fallen trees in the area.
"They were pleased to see us - they didn't want to spend another night out there," he told News Corp.
The men had kept warm by turning on the car engine periodically, but were running short of food.
They were able to drive their Subaru WRX from where it was stranded after the tractor cleared a path.
Snow fell at sea level in and around Hobart on Monday for the first time in a decade, while northern and western parts of the state also copped a dumping.
Roads in some elevated areas remained closed on Tuesday and police urged drivers to use caution.
The cold conditions are forecast to continue with another front due to pass over Tasmania late on Tuesday.
It will be followed by snowfall at 100 metres above sea level on Wednesday, the Bureau of Meteorology predicts.
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