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@red, The train takes about 2 hrs - including the bus from the airport to Innsbruck train station and costs about €20 one way.
If you're arriving during the day it's an easy journey. Bus from the airport to the station, train from Innsbruck to Jenbach, local train from Jenbach to Mayrhofen.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Anyone have any suggestions? |
Like @Matrix and @SaraJ said. Not a difficult journey by train 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Just in time, it was looking dire up there yesterday. |
Hintertux has been transformed It was looking very nice up there today.
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Lärmstange 2 chair lift will be open from Friday. Some snow up there forecast today, and the weather looks lovely for the first weekend of the Tirol Snowcard pass this weekend.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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That's a big improvement alright, looks cold crisp and white and a respectable 21k open per the website. Maybe closing in August was a good idea.
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Tuxertal, looking towards the glacier. More snow vicar?
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We were at work today on Spieljoch. There weren't many tourists around.  The top of the gondola at Spieljoch is 1850m. It was snowing there quite heavily just now.
It's too early for it to stay but it's nice to see and it will definitely be good for Hintertux.
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I'm sure @SaraJ won't mind me posting her picture from work this morning
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@swskier, Thank you I was going to suggest that you did.
Work was quiet... Nobody wanted anything from us, though there was a surprising number of people who came up to look at the snow and play in it around the building.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Tux looks amazing just there, did they upgrade the webcam also, bergfex panorama is catching mountains miles off into the distance
Showing 21km open
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You know it makes sense.
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A friend of mine is up there filming for Stomp it Tutorials and his social media stories look great.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Hi, because its always such a traffic jam on the Brettfall Tunnel in the morning i want to arrive already in the night (maybe from 21:00 o clock) before with my camper and stay the night on the Hintertux Parking lot. I dont want to stay several days, only the night before skiing / boarding. Will it be a problem?
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Poster: A snowHead
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@DaHopi, plenty of people stay in the car park at Hintertux, you're unlikely to have any issues. I did exactly that back in Easter 2023 when I was in the area for a day.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@swskier, thanks! I've heard rumors that they want to penalize 'camping' - but I don't actually want to camp - just go for wintersports for 1 day...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@DaHopi, I think if you're arriving at 21:00/22:00 you're unlikely to have any issues.
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Officially there's been a ban on overnight parking in Hintertux since January 2025. I've no idea if they are enforcing it.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Officially there's been a ban on overnight parking in Hintertux since January 2025. I've no idea if they are enforcing it. |
It didn't look like it was being enforced when we skied there in mid-May - there were loads of vans there that looked like they were parked up for overnight stays.
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Hi guys. Not strictly a snow report question, but I'm sure you would be happy to help.
Considering Mayrhofen for NY, 27th/28th for a week. I obviously know it's part of the Zillertal area, but how busy is it likely to be in broad terms of getting up and on the slopes, and then back again? Looking at Mayrhofen itself, two lifts out to two separate areas. Then of course accessing the other areas by maybe a bus and I think a train?
My assumption is it's going to be busy, but I may be wrong. Any advice or shared experience please? I prefer, broadly at least, to not have too much of a faff in the morning. I accept it will be a busy week in all places, but what I'm trying to gauge is how it stacks up in general against other resorts/areas. TIA.
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@Boofont, with Mayrhofen, you've also got a short bus ride up to Finkenberg for the lift there, or another short bus to the Horbergbahn. Both of those give access to the same main Mayrhofen ski area, but gets you away from the lift in the centre of town.
The longest I queued around that time of the year at Horbergbahn was around 10 minutes.
You're picking one of the busiest weeks of the entire year, so it will definitely be busy.
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@swskier, thanks, that's very helpful. It's going to be busy everywhere to be honest but 10 mins isn't that bad. Can I assume once away from the valley floor things tend to "normalise"?
I've heard many good things said about both Mayrhofen and the Zillertal area so it's a place I'd like to visit that's for sure.
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@Boofont, there's the usual bottle necks as you'd expect anywhere, but it's ok once you get going. You won't find it any busier than anywhere else you would ski during that time.
If you get yourself to the extremes of the area it'll be quieter. The black run down to the Mösslbahn gondola on the right hand side of the piste map is great. Always quite and a lovely run. Or get yourself over to Eggalm and it'll be quieter too.
If you want a particularly quiet experience, check out the tiny area up at Gerlosstein. Old school lifts, and 7 runs, but it's never busy. They get more people heading up there for tobogganing than they do skiers.
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Looks like snow to 2000m and cold temps this week could make for more nice webcams and decent skiing for those out there
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I can thoroughly recommend the Hotel Laendenhof for a DIY trip 
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@Ghost Dog, no availability for NY. Thanks all the same.
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You know it makes sense.
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You know things have improved when the tux changes their bergfex cams. Looking very white and also blue (and busy) above the restaurant.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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The tux looking glorious today. The run down to the mid station also looks close to viable though not open.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@8611, it's lovely here currently, yesterday was also. It's warming up currently and we'll see high teens in the valley (650m) by Friday, but the last few days have been quite cold. We walked the dog in Hochfügen on Sunday and it only ever reached a high of 3 degrees in the car park there at 1500m. Even a some light snow while we walked.
From my desk I can see the slopes of Zillertal arena and they're starting to get filled with snow.
You can see the Spieljochbahn station right by us and then the slopes in the distance.
Winter is most definitely coming!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@swskier, Please let me know if you have any vacancies at your place of work. Happy to start at the bottom, making tea etc.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@russ_e, genuinely loads, and they can sponsor visas if you're a skilled worker!
I should say, that's my home desk not work desk though!
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Stay tuned for @swskiers accounts of skiing before work and over lunch break! Lucky bug
Melted down to the mid station now as predicted but still looking very pleasant up top
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@8611, i'll try my best
Nice and warm today, I walked the dog at lunch time in a t shirt and jumper and was too hot in the sun!
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The Austrian women's slalom World Cup racers were in Hochfügen training this weekend, and then stayed just round the corner from my house at the Garden Hotel Crystal.
https://www.facebook.com/hotel.crystal/
I presume farmed snow and maybe some cannons, but i'm sure @SaraJ would be able to give more info as Race Point is her bosses baby!
https://www.facebook.com/hochfuegen
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@swskier, which piste do they use?
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@Matrix, It's red 8 next to the Pfaffenbühel 3 T-bar.
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Live from Hochfügen today (courtesy of @SaraJ), the race point piste in action
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Hintertux are opening up more terrain this weekend with Kaserer 2 T-bar opening on Saturday. That'll mean that most of the skiing above Tuxer Fernerhaus is open.
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