As Halloween approaches, many associate the night of October 31st with spooky costumes, trick-or-treating, and carved pumpkins. However, in the Aragón region of Spain, particularly in the Pyrenees, there exists a much older and unique tradition: La Noche de las Almetas (The Night of the Souls).
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Pyrenees Snowshoeing holiday
Guided snowshoeing holiday in the Pyrenees in February 2025. If you’re dreaming of a unique winter escape, snowshoeing in the Pyrenees is the perfect way to explore Spain’s majestic mountains while enjoying a peaceful, nature-filled holiday.
A fantastic summer of hiking!
Our summer season has come to an end and what a great summer it has been! We’ve welcomed more hikers than ever to the Pyrenees and the Picos de Europa.
Happy Christmas from the Pyrenees
We’d like to wish all of our friends and guests a very merry Christmas from all of us here at Hike Pyrenees. We had a busy summer – thank you to everyone who came and hiked with us this summer – we enjoyed showing you all our wonderful corner of the world.
Feefo holiday reviews
We have just started using the review service Feefo, and we’d appreciate it greatly if guests who holidayed with us this summer could leave us a review of their trip.
Two new guided hiking holidays for 2024
We've two new guided walking holidays for 2024 - the Beceite Spring Hiker (7-14th April) and the Catalan Pyrenees (18-25th May). Both are in fabulous hiking areas where we've run self-guided and private group trips for a number of years and are now offering as...
2024 holiday dates and Stansted-Zaragoza flights on sale
Our 2024 walking holiday program has been published and London Stansted-Zaragoza flights are now on sale. We’ve dual level guided walking holidays in the beautiful mountains of the Valle de Tena, Ordesa National Park and the Picos de Europa. Come and hike with us next summer!
The Pasarelas of Panticosa
Pasarelas are routes that follow a metal walkway through a gorge or across a cliff face. There’s a great new pasarelas route in Panticosa which I tried out with Isabel this weekend. The route isn’t long at just over two kilometres, but has fantastic views
Snowshoeing in the sunshine
Our snowshoeing holiday last week was a great success and I'm pleased to say we snowshoed under blue skies and sunshine every day. I don't think any of us were expecting to snowshoe in t-shirts but we did on several of the days - what a treat! Snow conditions in the...
Ski touring Canal Roya with David
Last week I finally got the skis out and headed out ski touring with our guide David. We've had beautiful sunny weather pretty much all January and this day was no different with brilliant blue skies overhead. We headed up to the Spanish-French border at Portalet...