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Hintertux then and now.
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My first trip to Hintertux in summer was was around 1993, I wish I had started taking a set of standard pictures then of the view from the Tuxerferhaus as I have been back at least once a year since. I just had a look through some old pictures and found a few from 2003 almost a decade later. I remember in the early years that there was a small tunnel going into the glacier not far from that point, a 100m or so over to the right which did not last for very long.

This collage is looking uphill from the TFH, June 11th 2003, plenty off snow and full width coverage.




By June 25th, all the snow had melted off this lower section and all that remained was full width crunchy blue ice (not untypical for summer), there was still plenty snow on the top sections but on the night before our last day it snowed again. The glacier extended over the full width of this part with no rocks showing through in the middle.

Looking back down at the TFH cafe.



Looking across the base of the glacier on left, TFH on the right.





Fast forward to July 2020, surprisingly there was still good snow coverage and no bare ice sections, however a massive amount of ice has gone. Quite a dramatic change over the 17 year period.

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So sad @JimboS, thank you for the history. Interesting though.
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Great pics. My first visit was September 1990 - with full snow cover down to Tuxer Fernerhaus & the glacier extending to just below that point.

It was shown like that on the 1990s hiking map - which I had until I left it in a mountain hut three years ago rolling eyes The current map shows the glacier clearly above Tuxer F.

Still a great glacier. Enjoy it while we can Confused
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First time summer Htux was in 1986. The Gefrorene Wand was completely under ice. Now I'm not even sure whether it's covered in winter. Likewise, the ice went past the Tuxerfernerhaus as far down as the Spannagelhaus. Now it ends more than 100m above the Fernerhaus... sad to see.
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On a more positive note, here is Tux on a good day. Now where did I shoot this pics from on the 6th April 2010.

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I was thinking the top of Wanglespitz chair or from piste 66??
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Close, Heidi´s Hütte under Lammerbichl with the a x12 optical zoom.
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The zoom is impressive quality. Had me stumped for a while.
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My first time ever on skis was Hintertux in August 1985 and it was the beginning of a love affair with the mountains. We drove from the Midlands with the AA book of roadmaps and when we got to Austria we headed towards Mayrhofen as we knew that was a ski resort ( hubby had been there a few times), then kept driving til we ran out of road! There was one hotel and little else. I returned last year and barely recognised it.
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