Winter-Mountainscapes Information White Peaks and Alpine Adventures – Tux-Finkenberg Is Home to Unadulterated Winter Fun
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FerienNewspaper for Regular Guests to the Tux-Finkenberg Region Septemberblick 2019 | Nr. 26 Winter Edition Tourist Board Winter-Mountainscapes Information White peaks and alpine adventures – Tux-Finkenberg is home to unadulterated winter fun he distinctive Olperer Hintertux, with their specially Peak at Hintertux Glacier developed elements, focus on T makes Tux a very special skiing fun for young and old at high alpine valley. The optimal Sommerberg. The entire Tux-Finkenberg Tou- altitude of 850 to 3,250 m gua- rist Board team are always on rantees snow one hundred per- WINTER MOUNTAINS- hand to provide helpful advice cent from October through to CAPES. The Tux-Finkenberg and assistance to valley visitors. May! Treat yourself to a break holiday region has so much From looking for accommoda- and fill you boots with pure win- more to offer: this includes 28 tion to holiday planning or lei- ter happiness! km of groomed cross-country sure activities, the whole team ski trails and a natural ice-ska- at the Tux-Finkenberg Tourist GLACIER WORLD. Hintertux ting rink with curling lanes. Board Information Offices are Glacier is one of the world‘s lea- Three floodlit natural toboggan more than happy to help. ding glacier ski resorts and has runs with quaint eateries add received many awards. Winter an extra dash of sociable fun to Infobüro Tux-Center sports lovers can look forward your holiday. Feel the energy of Lanersbach 401, 6293 Tux This top ski region Ski and Glacier World Zillertal 3000 makes Tux and to perfectly groomed powder the fresh, clear winter air duri- Finkenberg one of the leading winter sport regions of the Alps. slopes, state of the art cable car ng a leisurely walk through the Infobüro Finkenberg systems and excellent cuisine. metre peaks and the magnifi- region of superlatives. You can snow-covered landscapes, di- Dorf 140, 6292 Finkenberg The proverbial high point is the cent Olperer summit. explore over two hundred kilo- stancing yourself from the dai- breathtaking view from the Pa- metres of varied slopes in five ly grind with every single step Tel.: +43 (0)5287/8506 norama Terrace (3,250 m) of the PISTE DIVERSITY Ski & Gla- ski areas with just one ski pass. - this too is winter happiness in Fax: +43 (0)5287/8508 surrounding three thousand cier World Zillertal 3000 is a ski The Fun-slope and the Kidsslope Tux-Finkenberg. ❚ [email protected] | www.tux.at Celebrate in the Tux Valley Welcome to Tux-Finkenberg Contents Where else, if not at one of the dern and extremely comforta- New gondolas to 30 ski huts in the Tux Valley, Look forward ble gondolas. What remains is 2 Tuxer Fernerhaus does traditional Kaiserschmar- the one hundred per cent snow ren taste best? Enjoy the ma- to winter! guarantee and a wide range of Alexa, what‘s on in Tux? gnificent mountain panorama sporting, social, culinary and 3 in a comfortable deck chair cultural activities in the Tux on the terrace, whilst pampe- Dear Guests of the Tux Valley! Valley. Hubert and Franz – two ring your palate at the same The exceptional lengths our 4 members of the field staff time! From rustic to stylish, After a wonderful summer in accommodation providers go everyone will find just what the Tux Mountains with lots of to, to provide you, dear regu- Happy families in the they are looking for here. And sunshine and pleasant tempe- lar guests, with a memorable 5 Tux Valley after the thrills of the slopes, ratures for hiking and biking, holiday, will be celebrated in the après-ski time and party the holiday domicile of Tux- style again next year during the A special week for clubs are the place to celebrate Finkenberg is ready again for ninth Tux-Finkenberg Regular very special guests 6 until late! Tux-Center also pro- the coming winter. We have Guest Week. Chairman Markus Tipotsch, Msc, vides a wide-ranging events some new features for you to I am already looking forward Tux-Finkenberg Tourist Board Our concert highlights programme. The “Nightliner” make your holiday in the Tux to meeting old friends and ma- 7 ferries all party owls safe and Valley even more comfortable king new acquaintances. In the Yours sincerely sound between Hintertux and and relaxing: at the Hintertux meantime, I wish you a wonder- Overview of Events Finkenberg through the night. Glacier, Gletscherbus 2 has ful winter season in the Tux- 8 and Guest Tributes been equipped with new, mo- Finkenberg holiday region. ❚ 2 Ferien blick September 2019 | Nr. 26 Floodlit toboggan runs Three natural toboggan runs dotted with cosy cabins make for a change here in the Tux valley, bringing a fun and social element to your holi- day. The most beautiful – all 3 lanes are floodlit in the evening; Bichlalm in Hin- tertux at 1,695 m, this 3 km toboggan run leads into the valley. The toboggan run at Grieralm in Juns at 1,787 m is around 5 km long and the Höllensteinhütte in Tux- Lanersbach at 1,740 m with New gondolas to a 4 km run of tobogganing pleasure. A traditionally run cosy mountain hut for hikers and tobogganers alike. Access Tuxer Fernerhaus is also possible with our spe- cial toboggan taxi service. Operations manager, Martin Steinlechner, reports on replacing gondolas on the Gletscherbus 2 cable car and changing cables one level higher, on Gletscherbus 3. Winter pring and summer are Austrian ropeway authority and monstrates: length: 7,600 me- of 30 tons per cable. Then the six Wellness very busy times for em- tested each of the 34 new cabins tres, diameter 48 mm, weight: strands of the cable were untwi- S ployees of the Zillerta- for hours in trial operations,“ 66 tons. The real challenge sted over a length of 58 metres, ler Gletscherbahn glacier cable explains Martin. What happe- was to deliver this cable to its cut to different lengths and then car. In addition to inspection ned to the old cabins? They were rightful destination, i.e. to the twisted back together again,“ work on the facilities, there are sold. Twelve cabins are now in pulleys of the world’s highest says Martin. After stringent always technical innovations use in Andorra on a similar sys- bicable gondola lift. The special checks and tests, the system was and quality improvements to tem. The remaining cabins were transporter required to bring then put back into operation. ❚ be made. Martin Steinlechner, purchased by cable car enthusi- the cable to the valley terminal operations manager at the Hin- asts and are now used, amongst of the glacier lifts Gletscher- tertux glacier, offers an insight other things, as a washroom on bahn was too heavy for the thir- of the work. a camping site or as a gondola teen-kilometre journey to the Escape from the hustle and bar at a lido. Tuxer Fernerhaus, at an altitude bustle, find your inner peace NEW GONDOLAS. Glet- Not all work on cable car sys- of 2,660 meters. „So we divided with moments of reflection scherbus 2 has ferried about 30 tems is as obvious as changing the cable into two trucks, both immersed in nature – here in millions of guests to Tuxer Fer- the gondolas on Gletscherbus 2. connected by a drawbar shaft. the holiday homeland of Tux- nerhaus over the past 23 years. However, they serve for the sa- A third truck provided support Finkenberg. A walk through After almost 75,000 operating fety and comfort of passengers. in difficult passages,“ reports the virgin, deep snowy winter hours, the old cabins have now With this in mind, the ball-bea- Martin Steinlechner. The entire landscape of the Tux valley is been replaced by the latest ge- rings of three deflection pulleys convoy weighed 138 tons. The so much more than just trud- neration of gondolas. “When ca- were replaced one level higher new cable was connected to ging through the snow – it bins are replaced, the cable car at the mountain terminal of the old one, in order to hoist it Martin Steinlechner has been is winter wellness at its very is normally shut down for the Gletscherbus 3, at a height of over cableway support pulleys. operations manager at the Zillerta- best. Re-charge your batteries work to be carried out,“ explains 3,250 metres. Not an easy task: „This was a very delicate process ler Gletscherbahn glacier lifts since on any of the winter hiking Martin Steinlechner. Gletscher- a deflection pulley has a diame- and took about one and a half 2013 and is an avid cable car fan. trails, all 68 km of them cle- bus 2, however, is one of the ter of around four metres and days. The cable must not twist „After Mama, the second word I ared and marked around Tux most important installation on weighs about five tons. or touch the ground, „explains ever said was gondola,“ laughs the and Finkenberg. Enjoy the the Hintertux Glacier. For this Martin. Then the splicers went 28 year old. He graduated from HTL tranquillity of nature with reason, the cabins could only be NEW CABLE. Cable replace- to work. This team of specialists technical school for mechanical en- only the sound of crunching replaced during ongoing opera- ment was also on the agenda connected the two rope ends gineering and was one of the youn- snow underfoot - easing body, tions. Such an undertaking is for Gletscherbus 3. A difficult in a very complex and manual gest ropeway operations manager in mind and soul, step by step. unprecedented in Austria. „We undertaking, as a glance at the procedure.