Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees
Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees
We had a brilliant snowshoeing holiday early this month, and our group of six intrepid guests had absolutely perfect conditions! It was one of those magical weeks where it had snowed all of the week preceding the trip, and then the day the guests arrived, the sun broke through and we had fantastic weather all week along with great snow underfoot.
Last week we had a beautiful afternoon of ski touring with my American friend Nick. After a period of bad weather and snow, some sun shining days always come in our mountains!! Starting from Astún ski resort in Aragon Valley, we chose to follow one classical summer...
Quebrantahuesos is a huge bike race in the Pyrenees that shares its name with our famous Lammergeier vulture which is called ‘Quebrantahuesos’ in Spanish or the ‘bone-crusher’! It’s a appropriate name for this beast of a race which is...
Well, we can’t believe it, another hiking season at Hike Pyrenees has come to an end! It’s been a superb season with beautiful weather including the heat wave near the beginning of the season. We’ve found some great swimming holes, had some superb...
September here is a beautiful month. The villages are winding down after a busy August and we start waking up to fresh crisp mornings. The leaves on the trees start to change colour and the hill sides turn a mixture of orange and red. We’ve even had a dusting of...
Not only do I enjoy long and strenuous treks in the high mountains, I enjoy mountaineering in almost, if not all it’s forms, from bouldering, through to sport climbing, ski touring, alpine climbing, and climbing in the Greater Ranges. Enjoying all these...
We hope everybody had an ejoyable August what ever you got up to, we certainly did! The sun continued to shine here as we welcomed more guests to the beautiful Pyrenees, many of which have already decided they want to come back! In amongst our guided holidays, Phil,...
Once more we have reached the end of another busy and enjoyable month here in the Pyrenees and we really do need to ask our selves where has this month gone! It’s been fantastic to see familiar faces returning for their 2nd, 3rd or even 4th holiday with us and...
It’s been a super busy start to the season which is why we’ve been a bit quiet here on the blog page! We hit the ground running (or should we say guiding!) towards the end of May and haven’t stopped. Below is a selection of our favourite...
I recently did an ascent of Bisaurin on ski’s – a superb peak with brilliant views. It might sound a bit strange, but most of the local skiers will tell you that the ski touring season actually starts in March in the Pyrenees. In March, the avalanche risk...