Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees
Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees
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 which at 1800 metres and is a great place for ski touring or snowshoeing with a number of popular routes starting from there. David...
The mountains of the Valle de Tena are looking beautiful and bursting into life. Spring gentians, trumpet gentians and elder flowered orchids are covering the sunnier meadows around Ibon de Piedrafita and above the village of Sandinies. Elder flowered orchids...
Saw this beautiful, huge moth on the pavement right outside our front door the other morning. Found out it was an Emperor moth. Really large – about 5cm across and fantastic colour around the eye spots and the bright red flashes near the wingtips. He kindly...
Saw my first Egyptian vulture of the year while out walking near the village of Piedrafita today. There very distictive with their black and white wings, yellow head a diamond shaped tail. These vultures migrate from northern Africa and the Middle East at the...
Update: visit our new Pyrenees weather forecast page for up to date forecasts and information on the most accurate forecasts for the Pyrenees I find snow-forecast.com an excellent site with very reliable forecasts for the Pyrenees. They’ve just launched a...
The other day I took a walk from Biescas up to Santa Elena and was pleased to see that they’ve put up some boards with information about the dolmen. The upper Gallego has one of the greatest concentration of megaliths in the Pyrenees. The dolmen at Santa Elena...
The Jan/Feb issue of Adventure Travel has a good article on skiing in Formigal. The same issue also features a hike in the Ordesa National Park following a simal route to the Hike Pyrenees GR11walking holiday. Read about it then come and join us in the Pyrenees to try...
The lovely autumn weather we´ve been having here in the Pyrenees came to an abrupt end last weekend when we had about 30cm of snow in Biescas. Anna and I hiked up to Ermita Santa Elena which looked lovely in the snow.
Whilst Phil was away this weekend I discovered village life in Spring. I enjoyed my first Calçotado in the village of Sardas on Saturday. Sunday I joined the Sabiñanigo Mountain Club on a relaxing walk between the villages of Mianos, Artieda and Ruesta. I completed my...
A visit to Barcelona last weekend happily coincided with a Barcelona home match so I visited Camp Nou for the first time. What a stadium – I’ve been to Old Trafford several times and thought that was big but the 98,000 seater Camp Nou is vast. Up in the...