The glacier takes centre stage
At 2,050 metres, the first chord hits differently. Hintertux has always been more than just a ski resort – and the music programme makes that impossible to ignore.
While the rest of the Alps are winding down, Hintertux is just getting started. From late March to early May, the Glacier Spring festival runs forty days of events across the mountain – from the valley station up to 3,250 metres. Concerts, freestyle competitions, good food at altitude, and the odd quiet moment in the ice. There’s plenty to get through.
The programme
April on the Hintertux Glacier is for people who aren’t quite ready to call it a season. Down in the valley it’s already spring, but up here the Glacier Spring programme is still going strong.
Programme highlights
It kicks off at Easter with the EiEiEi egg hunt – strap on your skis and help the kids search for hidden eggs across the Zillertal 3000 ski and glacier world. The Sommerberg Arena hut hosts the EGG-streme Easter Party that same afternoon: live music, good atmosphere, spring snow. For an earlier start, Early Bird Skiing is under way from 7.30 a.m.: first gondola up, near-empty runs, then breakfast at the Tuxer Fernerhaus with the peaks still catching the morning light.
On 9 April, the BBQ Brunch at the Spannagelhaus does exactly what it sounds like: grilled food, cold drinks, and views from 2,531 metres that no valley restaurant can touch.
On 18 April, OIMARA brings his band to the Hintertux valley station for an evening of Bavarian rock and Gstanzl – think folk music at proper volume – followed by an aftershow with the Wildkogel Buam at the Hohenhaus Tenne. The next day, the Ski Austria Snowpark Day puts freestyle coaches in the Betterpark to help you dial in your tricks. And on 25 and 26 April, the Zillertal Välley Rälley wraps up its season with Europe’s top young snowboarders going head-to-head in slopestyle on glacier snow.
In between the big days, the Mountain Gastronomy Backstage Tour takes you behind the scenes at the Tuxer Fernerhaus – a proper look at what actually gets cooked up at 2,600 metres. And every Sunday in April, the Glacier Ski Safari covers routes and viewpoints that don’t appear on any piste map, with guides who know the mountain properly.
Best of all? The Adler Inn sits right in the middle of all of it.
