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.
The Pyrenees Articles
First skiing and snowshoeing trips of the winter
Winter has arrived early in the Pyrenees and it’s been snowing for most of November in the mountains, right down to village level. Formigal and Astun ski stations both opened last Saturday (16th Nov) – I’ve never known them to open that early before. From today...
Summer 2020 Pyrenees walking holiday brochure
Our summer 2020 walking holiday brochure is available to download as a pdf or to view online. Our brochure has all the dates and prices for our guided and self guided holidays next summer. This year, to cut down on a lot of paper and brochure air miles, we've decided...
London Stansted to Zaragoza flights now on sale
The Ryanair London Stansted to Zaragoza flights for next summer are now on sale. Flights are quite cheap at the moment with some dates under £100 return. Prices usually go up as you get nearer the travel date so don't delay and book today to take advantage of these...
Thanks for another great hiking season
Autumn is now upon us and another hiking season is over! It only seemed like yesterday that we were awaiting the first group of the season. In September we had wonderful weather for our final walking vacations of the season. The heatwaves of early summer had gone and...
More hiking holidays in the Pyrenees
Here are some more photos of the superb holidays we had last July in the Pyrenees. We had a fantastic month of hiking and while the temperatures were a bit on the hot side, we had lots of sunshine and the rainjackets stayed in the rucksack the whole month! Peaks &...
Free digital mapping for our Village to Village itinerary
The Viewranger app is a free GPS and digital mapping app. It has excellent free, downloadable, hiking maps for the Pyrenees and all over the world. It’s perfect if you are doing a Hike Pyrenees self guided holiday, such as our Village to Village itinerary, and would...
Fantastic hiking this July in the Pyrenees
We had some spectacular hiking last month both in the Spanish Pyrenees and the Picos de Europa. Here are some photos and comments from our guests from our first couple of holidays this July. Picos de Europa, July 1st-7th In the first week of July, we spread our wings...
Already enjoying another great summer in the Pyrenees
Summer is back in the Pyrenes and there isn´t a better way to welcome it than going hiking. These first weeks of the season we are walking surrounded by white snowed peaks and colourful flowers on green meadows, by semi-frozen lakes and strong flowing streams and...
Neolithic cave art found in the Ordesa National Park
The highest neolithic cave art in Spain has been found in the the Ordesa National Park. Paintings have been discovered in two caves at 2200 metres altitude, near Regufio Goriz at the base of Monte Perdido. The paintings depict human and four legged animal figures. At...