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Mayrhofen/Hintertux
We've done France very often over the last few years and Austria would be a
nice change. We're a couple of good intermediates not put off by steep reds or blacks, but are quite at home on cruisy reds. As age creeps on we also appreciate regular stops for coffee or beer and admiring the view. We're thinking of going to Mayrhofen next month but haven't been there before and should be grateful for some comments please. Also, can we get a bus to Hintertux for an awayday? TIA Rob |
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Mayrhofen/Hintertux
Personally I never quite enjoyed Mayrhofen. Maybe its because at one of the
daily Mail ski shows (20 years ago) it was termed the Torremolinos of the Alps. The Zillertal is full of resorts and it is possible to commute between them. Many are linked by a narrow gauge railway. There must be a postbus going upto Hintertux - but it gets rather cold up there! All the Austrian resorts feature loads of mountain huts. I rather enjoy some of the offerings (both food and drink). Many feature (rather loud) techno music which echoes around the slopes. Austrian glühwien is rather good, but do try the jägertee. Do consider Obertauern (my wife's favourite Austrian resort). Its snow sure, has loads of mountain huts and has a good selection of pistes. My favourite is Ischgl. Throughout Austria, language is seldom a problem. As with allot of Austria, the resorts will be very crowded at weekends because there are so many large centres of population all within a couple of hours drive. Its not necessarily a problem: start the day early; have an early lunch (11:00am) the if need be have a mid-afternoon snack. All the day-trippers stop for lunch by 11:30 (on sunny days), and they will not vacate tables before 14:00! Potential queues don't thin out at lunchtime either. regards Paul "Rob White" wrote in message ... We've done France very often over the last few years and Austria would be a nice change. We're a couple of good intermediates not put off by steep reds or blacks, but are quite at home on cruisy reds. As age creeps on we also appreciate regular stops for coffee or beer and admiring the view. We're thinking of going to Mayrhofen next month but haven't been there before and should be grateful for some comments please. Also, can we get a bus to Hintertux for an awayday? TIA Rob |
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"PSmith" paulDOTsmith_UK@tiscaliDOTcoDOTuk wrote in message ... Personally I never quite enjoyed Mayrhofen. Maybe its because at one of the daily Mail ski shows (20 years ago) it was termed the Torremolinos of the Alps. The Zillertal is full of resorts and it is possible to commute between them. Many are linked by a narrow gauge railway. There must be a postbus going upto Hintertux - but it gets rather cold up there! All the Austrian resorts feature loads of mountain huts. I rather enjoy some of the offerings (both food and drink). Many feature (rather loud) techno music which echoes around the slopes. Austrian glühwien is rather good, but do try the jägertee. Do consider Obertauern (my wife's favourite Austrian resort). Its snow sure, has loads of mountain huts and has a good selection of pistes. My favourite is Ischgl. Throughout Austria, language is seldom a problem. As with allot of Austria, the resorts will be very crowded at weekends because there are so many large centres of population all within a couple of hours drive. Its not necessarily a problem: start the day early; have an early lunch (11:00am) the if need be have a mid-afternoon snack. All the day-trippers stop for lunch by 11:30 (on sunny days), and they will not vacate tables before 14:00! Potential queues don't thin out at lunchtime either. regards Paul "Rob White" wrote in message ... We've done France very often over the last few years and Austria would be a nice change. We're a couple of good intermediates not put off by steep reds or blacks, but are quite at home on cruisy reds. As age creeps on we also appreciate regular stops for coffee or beer and admiring the view. We're thinking of going to Mayrhofen next month but haven't been there before and should be grateful for some comments please. Also, can we get a bus to Hintertux for an awayday? TIA Rob I skied Mayrhofen last January (and Isgl and Galtur the year before). Winter was late arriving last year but we were lucky that it had snowed a reasonable amount for around 7 - 10 days before we got there and then carried on doing it a fair bit while we were there. I agree with a lot that Paul said. I'd add that: Hintertux is easily reachable but you are looking at a substantial bus ride to it (but measured in minutes not hours). Didn't do it myself 'cos most glacier skiing is boring. M is, IMHO, mostly intermediate skiing. There were not many blacks and those there were are not that challenging. The 17 off the Horberg is good for cracking down. It had an awkward camber and a couple of steepish pitches near the bottom to keep it entertaining. Didn't find much by way of bump fields (but nor was I working hard to find them). M makes a big deal of the Harakiri (which it claims is the steepest piste in Austria). It might be - but only for about 100 metres! What it mostly is, is icy. Unpleasant rather than difficult - but probably quite nice in the right weather conditions. Looking at the piste map, you might think it's quite a big area but we'd skied most of it in 4 days. However, we didn't do the Ahorn or bother with Hintertux (the latter mostly because it was snowing a lot and visibility was reported as very poor most days up on the glacier). We thought the hutten were not bad but it was best to avoid the ones near the top of the Penkenbahn and the little cluster of them on the Penkenjoch. Also to be avoided (except in bad weather) were the various hutten in valley bottoms - for no other reason that they were usually in shadow. We found ourselves heading back a few times to the hutte at the mittelstation of the Finkerberger lift. It didn't get too busy, the food was fine (for that kind of thing) and it had a nice terrace with good views. The village (quite a big one) is quite pleasant - if you like Austrian villages. You also need to like a) the Dutch, who seem in large quantities to like M and b) Russians (OK - maybe not like!) who we found in small but very noticeable quantities usually paralytically drunk! A number of the bars targetted the Dutch contigent but they were fine for Brits too. Several nice Konditorei (sp?) in the main drag and you could have a pleasant coffee and cake in the sunshine if you picked your time and the right cafe. Other little details. One main lift out of the village centre (the Penkenbahn), a modern gondola (IIRC). Got pretty crowded for around 1/2 hour at 9ish but otherwise fine. There is a bus service around the village but we rarely bothered with it after we discovered a) that it took such a roundabout route, you could beat it on foot, b) especially if you weren't in ski boots carrying skis which we weren't once we discovered the storage facilities in the ski shop under the Penkenbahn lift. Charged a modest daily fee which was definitely worth it. That's about as much as I remember - hope it is of some help. Paul |
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Mayrhofen/Hintertux
Hi,
I've been to Vorderlanersbach (town located in the valley of Hintertux) a couple of times. It is a great skiing area. I went there at the beginning of january. The slopes were really nice, Eggalm and the area above Finkenberg (Rastkogel?) were great. I myself am a cruiser as well on reds (up to the steeper ones). From Vorderlanersbach there goes a bus to the glacier but I personally do no like skiing on a glacier that much. It takes some time to get to Hintertux. I've never went to Mayerhofen ski area in the winter but I can imagine that it is crowded with people, since we a lot of people call it in the Netherlands "Little Netherlands" ;-) because of complete Dutch tribes going to Mayerhofen.... Another option migth be Montafon where I've been also a couple of times. The last years I've went to Serfaus-Fiss_Ladis which really has good cruising pistes. Have a look at those areas as well.. Montafon being the less crowded ones but as a negative side not all areas can be reached by skis, you have to get a bus for some other areas. Cheers, Roland "Rob White" wrote in message ... We've done France very often over the last few years and Austria would be a nice change. We're a couple of good intermediates not put off by steep reds or blacks, but are quite at home on cruisy reds. As age creeps on we also appreciate regular stops for coffee or beer and admiring the view. We're thinking of going to Mayrhofen next month but haven't been there before and should be grateful for some comments please. Also, can we get a bus to Hintertux for an awayday? TIA Rob |
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Mayrhofen/Hintertux
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:56:16 -0000, "Rob White"
wrote: We've done France very often over the last few years and Austria would be a nice change. We're a couple of good intermediates not put off by steep reds or blacks, but are quite at home on cruisy reds. As age creeps on we also appreciate regular stops for coffee or beer and admiring the view. We're thinking of going to Mayrhofen next month but haven't been there before and should be grateful for some comments please. Also, can we get a bus to Hintertux for an awayday? Yes, there are regular ski buses to Hintertux. The journey takes about half an hour. If you buy a ski pass for 4 days or more, it's valid for the whole valley including the railway linking the resorts. Mayrhofen has, as others have said, fairly easy terrain. I'm not particularly confident on reds but didn't have any problems with the ones there. If you have a car (even if you don't, there are regular buses) it's better to get the Horberg lift rather than the Penken. They both go to the same ski area, but the Penken lift is in the middle of the village with no parking and can have long queues at the ends of the day. The 3-man chair at the top of the Penken gondola is also very slow and busy - drop down just a little to the left and take the 4-man instead. The Ahorn side of the mountain is really for beginners only - consists mainly of a wide, easy blue run. Elsewhere in the valley, Kaltenbach/Hochfuegen is another largish area with a number of easy reds (watch number 8 though, as it turns to black for a short way without warning!). On a clear day the Kristal Hutte has fantastic views. The Zell am Ziller/Gerlos area consists mainly of red runs, but I haven't done that area myself. HTH David |
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