Tux, Tyrol#Hintertux

Hintertux Glacier is the tourist name of Frozen Wall Keeses (also called Tux addition ) as well as the neighboring Riepenkeeses in the background of the Tux Valley, a Nebentals the Zillertal in Tyrol, Austria. Both glaciers are accessible by cars and lifts and are used all year round with the appropriate amount of snow as glacier skiing. At its highest point the ski region reaches 3250 m up to the saddle between the Frozen Wall tips.

The ice

Up to 120 meters of the Hintertux glacier is at its lowest point in the ice thickness. It has a length of about 4 km, and this always varies each year by the motion of up to 40 meters. Therefore, the lifts must be repeatedly crazy year, so that the poles are straight. Overall, the glaciers of up to 190 million cubic meters is ice.

Tourism

The Hintertux Glacier offers year-round on the way to ski. Due to the height of good snow conditions are also usually so almost all slopes and lifts can be put into operation. The glacier ski resort offers its own ski school for beginners and advanced.

In addition to winter sports facilities of the Hintertux glacier allows a panoramic view of the Alps from almost 3250 m. The area is also suitable for hiking in the mountains, there were plenty of cabins available, some with catering throughout the year. One of the cottages is the Spannagelhaus with the natural monument Spannagelhöhle, the largest with over 10 km long cave system of the Central Alps. The entrance is right next to the Spannagelhaus.

A crevasse can be visited ( Nature Ice Palace ); the input to is just below the top station of the Glacier 3 visitors climb it down about 25 meters deep into the ice on ladders and stairs.

Lifts and cable cars

In order to convey the amount of tourists on the Hintertux glacier, there are three large cable cars were built: the so-called glacier buses run each with a gondola on two steel cables and can carry 24 people with a gondola. 1968 the first chair in the world was built with supports in glacial ice in Hintertux: The Chairlift " Frozen wall ", the ( 2600 m) ranges from Tux Fernerhaus to the rock head ( 3,050 m). The Glacier Bus 3 is the highest cable car in two steel cables in the world. The glacier buses are cable cars of the type Funitel. The third major line was opened only in the winter season 2008/2009 in operation. It now bears the name Gletscherbus 1 and leads from the valley up to the Sommerbergalm. Thus, the older 4-person gondolas were replaced, which had been taken over the passenger along with the still in operation 8 -person gondola to the Sommerbergalm. To ensure a year-round operation, there are in each section of the feeder chain from the base station to the Frozen Wall 2 cable cars. Overall, winter sports tourists and the remaining 18 lifts to transport visitors from the valley station Hintertux provided ( 1500 m ) down to the glacier available.

Pictures

View from the highest hill station of the snowy Alps to the west

The noise bar ( 2686 m above sea level. A. ) on the Hintertux glacier of Hintertux Fernerhaus ( 2660 m above sea level. A. ) from

Look in the Zillertal in the north

Panorama from the summit of the Frozen Wall tip

View from the valley to the Lärmstange (Nov. 2007)

View from the Hintertux glacier (below the Frozen Wall ) in the south ( Schlegeis ) (Feb. 2007)

Panoramic view from the Hintertux glacier of the Frozen wall (Feb. 2007)

Panoramic view of the glacier hut (Feb. 2009)