The Pyrenees Articles

Hiking in Ordesa

Safety in the mountains: Why we use Garmin inReach on all our walking holidays

When hiking in the Pyrenees, a sense of freedom and remoteness is part of the experience. Wide valleys, high passes and quiet trails are what draw people here. At the same time, these are serious mountains, where weather can change quickly and mobile phone coverage is not always reliable. A Garmin InReach allows you to call for help if something goes wrong and for people to see your location and keep an eye out for you.

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First Egyptian vultures of the year

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...

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Snowshoeing at La Cuniacha

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...

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Cycling to Espierre

After a week of staying in due to high winds, snow and too much officework the sun finally came out today so I headed up to the villages of Espierre and Barbenuta on my bike. Conditions were pretty snowy and icy on the 4x4 tracks I usually cycle on so headed up the...

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New Costa Blanca Rockfax guidebook

The Costa Blanca's a great place to climb. Anna and I along with Ken and Hannah have been there climbing a few times. Great in the autumn as you can still be climbing in shorts in November. There's a huge number of crags there and I haven't even scratched the surface...

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Car Rental in Zaragoza for the Pyrenees

Zaragoza is the nearest major city to the Aragonese Pyrenees and one of the easiest places to hire a car from if you're coming to the Pyrenees. There are two main places to rent cars from - Delicias train station or the airport. Both have National/Atesa, Europcar and...

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Hiking to an iced up Ibon de Piedrafita

Ibon de Piedrafita is in a beautiful spot under the cliffs of the Sierra de Partacua and yesterday I headed up there with Berute - a friend from the village. In summer this is a really popular walk with guests on our walking holidays but I'd never seen it completly...

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Favourite photos of 2012

2012's drawing to a close - it's been a great year here in the Pyrenees and I thought it would be a good time to show some of our favourite photo's from this summer - there's lot's of photos of our guests so see if you can spot yourself! The photo above was on the way...

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Vulture feeding station planned for the Valle de Tena

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...

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First winter outing the season

Snow finally arrived to the Pyrenees last week so we took advantage of some great weather Saturday to get out onto the snow for the first time this season. Rafa and I headed up to the border at Portalet which is a great place for snow-shoeing, skiing and generally...

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