Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees
Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees
We had some great early season weather on our Valle de Tena Explorer trip last week. It’s always a delight to welcome people to our home village of Biescas. The wildflowers are simply stunning this season and at this time of year we’ve the trails to ourselves and the mountain tops are still white with snow.
This weekend Biescas town hall is running a series of guided orchid and flora walks. They're led by Jose Miguel who has written 7 books on Pyrenean flora. The orchid on the advert is a woodcock orchid - one of the fascinationg Ophrys family of orchids. Each variety is...
I was hiking up Punta del Pacino at the weekend which is one of my favourite peaks in the valley - not high at 1965 metres but with a fantastic position right in the centre of the valley and you get superb views in all directions from the summit. The lower sunny...
Our friends Dave and Elena are over at the moment with their daughter Evangeline. We all went hiking from Sallent up to the embalse at La Sarra which is a lovely spot. Isabel and Evangeline went in the backpacks and loved it. The spring flowers are really getting...
Ordesa has had lots of snow this winter and you can snowshoe straight from the Pardera car park where there's several feet of snow. The valley looks beautiful in the snow and I've been over there a couple of times in the past few weeks - one time with Anna and Isabel...
Saw my first pair of Egyptian Vultures this year while out cycling near Biescas. Lucky enough to get a couple of good pictures of them strutting around a field. Seems very early in the season to see them - they migrate to north Africa and the Middle East in the...
La Cuniacha animal park keeps animals that are or were once indigenous to the Pyrenees. They've lots of rare species including european lynx, bison, iberan ibex, wolves and lots of different types of chamois and deer. It's a great place to visit any time of year but...
La Cuniacha - the wild animal park in Piedrafita - yesterday announced that they will be opening a vulture feeding station next spring. This is fantastic news and will give Hike Pyrenees guests even more opportunities to see Lammergeier, griffon vultures, egyptian...
There's a workshop and excurison on identifying animal tracks, birds nests, feathers and lots of other interesting stuff this Wednesday at 6pm in Riglos - you need to call and put your name on. It's a beautiful area with beautiful high red conglomerate cliffs and a...
The wonderful and very rare Lady's Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium calceolus) has been in flower again this June. The Valley de Tena is luck enough to have a population of around a dozen of these fantastic plants. It's one of only 3 populations left in the Pyrenees - the...