Hintertux - Skiing the Only Resort in the World Opened 365 Days a Year!

Yeah, I know.... Some may say, "What about Zermatt?!". Zermatt is great. And also is running 365 days a year. But those who have been up there in summer know we can hardly call it a resort during those months. Hintertux has mutliple "schleppers", chairs, gondolas that take you to over dozens of kilometers of skiable trails, fully functioning rental and restaurant that serves cappuccino in ceramic cups at 10,000ft high. Wink-wink ‘merica.
For summer skiing, the resorts sits on a glacier that is at its max depth 120m (390ft) thick, and over 4km (2.5miles) long. To get up there you need to take 3 gondolas, which, in just a few minutes, will bring you 1500m (4500ft) higher.
We started the day by waking up on one of the rest-stops in Austria, near Innsbruck, only about 40 minutes away from the resort. First you have to climb through the beautiful Zillertal valley, towns like Mayerhoffen and towards all the "something-Tux" villages, until you reach Hintertux village, at 1500m elevation.
We started with a beautiful bluebird, but had to keep an eye on reported thunderstorms heading our way. The elevation was felt in early fatigue but the day was a blast, even though the “warmth" is slowly getting the best of the high alpine ice and snow… as you see at the end of the video.
00:00 Intro
01:48 About Hintertux Glacier
03:02 Skiing and Tbar Challege
05:27 Hintertux Betterpark (Snowpark)
08:36 The Storm
11:54 Free-roaming Cows and Melting Ice
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[@TheStan61294]

Zermatt is also open 365 days😊

[@juliangebler4881]

not always becouse of extreme weather conditions it varies from year to year

[@sivayamsiva9343]

Excellent skiing experience really enjoyable, thanks for sharing very impressive video, thanks for sharing 👌👌👌

[@m.hoffman2889]

usually in Zermatt you have way more pistes open in summer, its also much higher, early in summer you can even go down to Trockner Steg. I've seen Hintertux in August being very sad, its like water skiing

[@Type1FunDay]

Probably I always came in the wrong time. Each time I visited Zermatt in the summer (June-July), only the very top two flat lifts were running. And the best you could do was take touring skis. So that is where my comment came from... Seems I ll have to try again with better planning. : )

[@Khalid-bw3wg]

How much does it cost for a day pass?

[@Type1FunDay]

I think it is between 60-65 Euros for an Adult for 1day, starting at 8AM. If you start later, with each hour I believe the price drops a bit more. You can check it out here: www.hintertuxergletscher.at/en/tickets-rates/tickets-rates/rates-hintertux-glacier/

[@mbtravel7294]

Hi Jan, i recognize your voice from generation snow! I am curious about visiting this summer, i am not familiar with the European trail classifications. Are the runs here considered intermediate or only expert runs?

[@jl4921]

Hey there! If you look at this map at: 02:54 The blues are easy, red are intermediate, and black are advanced. I am purposefully not tying it to American colors. Both coloring, but also grading are different. And if you are from the East Coast, then the intermediate and advanced in Europe will be steeper than the one over here. To get an idea: 03:15 - here I am skiing the blue (9A) trail on the map, pretty mellow 04:51 - here I am skiing the blue (9) and it connects to the red (3) 09:34 - this is the red (5) - the top part here would probably be considered black on the east coast. As you can see my wife is sort of early intermediate. She normally skis better than this but I think the thinner air made her tired and the soft snow was not that easy for her either. But overall she was able to handle both the steeps and the varying conditions. I would not consider these trails expert, I think what you will find is that some runs are a bit steeper, but there is always mellow way down as well. Some areas are flat transitions. A few things to be aware of: - the sun hits the slopes hard. I would recommend starting early and go first to (viewers) right side of the mountain that faces the sun early and gets slushy soon. - the left upper side is in shade and lasts a bit longer. - you can rent skis at the top BETWEEN the second and third gondola, so no need to haul any gear up the mountain. They have decent selection, and each time i rented it was in great shape. - the last three times the conditions were very different, once the mountain was completely covered in snow, and the lifts on the far right were opened as well. The next time, the mountain could barely opened as there was almost no snow. And this last time only the upper part was fully opened, and if you look at the end of the video ... they were covering the bottom with some white plastic, perhaps protecting the snow. Not sure. My point ... how many lifts are running, and how many trails are opened varies a lot recently. So just fyi. - for weather, it is best to use their local apps. We used this: www.bergfex.com/hintertux/wetter/berg/ -- but you can really only trust it about 3 days ahead. its big mountains. : ) - you can actually camp in the parking lot. I am not sure if it is officially allowed, or just tolerated, but ever since my teens when we used to go there and camp, till today, I see peoples camper vans, or even tents. We booked a van last year to drive around europe/alps. It is actually very easy to find spots to sleep anywhere. if you have any questions before going, shoot me an email. I think it is in the "bio". 🙏

[@mbtravel7294]

@@jl4921 Thank you Jan for taking the time to leave me such a detailed explanation! You pretty much summed up all my questions and concerns. Hopefully we both will encounter much snow wherever we choose to visit.🙂

[@bananadude9642]

The title is wrong, mate. Don’t forget about Zermatt.

[@MarcoFD]

i was in tux as well in july, same crowds in the morning and the pistes destroyed within a hour by all the ski teams, can not recommend going here as a recreational trip in the summer.

[@ilhamhamadi7883]

When did you go there?

[@Type1FunDay]

About a month ago... First week of June, this year.