Blogging from the Pyrenees
Phil & Anna have been living in the Pyrenees for over 17 years and love the culture, wildlife and mountains here. We run Hike Pyrenees, which organises guided and self guided hiking holidays in the Pyrenees and other areas of Spain. Our blog tells about our adventures hiking, snowshoeing and skiing in the Pyrenees and we hope to explain some of the fascinating flora, fauna and history of the area. We hope you enjoy reading!
Valle de Tena Explorer: sunshine, wildflowers and mountain adventures
We had some great early season weather on our Valle de Tena Explorer trip last week. It’s always a delight to welcome people to our home village of Biescas. The wildflowers are simply stunning this season and at this time of year we’ve the trails to ourselves and the mountain tops are still white with snow.
Snowshoeing holiday in the Pyrenees
Next February we are running a guided snowshoeing holiday in the Valle de Tena. We’ve been asked about this lots of times by readers of the blog, so hopefully some of you will be able to come and join us for this advenure! Snowshoeing is brilliant fun and requires no…
Summer 2019 hiking brochure
Our Summer 2019 is now ready so order your copy today and start planning your next adventure in the Pyrenees. Next summer we’ve a new itinerary – the Canyons of Ainsa – that explores the eastern side of the Ordesa National Park with hikies in the…
New launderette at Biescas
A new launderette has been opened at Biescas. So, from now on, our hikers will have the option to clean and dry their clothes before continuing with their hiking holidays. The laundrette opens every day from 8am to 23pm, so you will have time enough in the afternoon…
Anoher perfect summer of hiking in the Pyrnenees
After the busy month of August, we can look back and discover how many great weeks of hiking we´ve had this summer. Both at Tena Valley and Ordesa National Park, our guests have enjoyed an amazing summer of good weather and incredible landscapes that look spectacular…
Aneto 3404m – The heighest peak in the Pyrenees
At 3404m Aneto is the highest peak in the Pyrenees with Posets at 3371m and Monte Perdido 3355m being the second and third highest. Neither Phil or myself (Hannah) had climbed Aneto before so in July this year we both set a date for the adventure. We had a great time…
Village to Village – a self guided adventure
One of our many holiday options here at Hike Pyrenees is to explore the Pyrenees at your own speed with one of our self guided holiday options. We introduced the first of these holidays to our itinerary back in 2012 – Village to village self guided, which is in…
We welcome a new exciting hiking season in the Pyrenees
We´ve had some really intense months, preparing a new stirring hiking season. Now, after this first effort, we are already enjoying the beginning of the summer. The snowy and rainy spring has led to an amazing landscape, full of colourful flowers, spectacular…
A day skiing with the family
It’s great living near a ski resort and skiing is part of the lifestlye here. On Wednesday afternoons the kids have ski lessons with the school and last Sunday we ventured out to Panticosa for our first day’s skiing with the whole family – and to…
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The Ordesa NP
Guide to hiking the spectacular canyons of the Ordesa National Park
Pyrenees butterflies
Gallery of the spectacular butterflies and moths we have in the Pyrenees
Village to Village
Hotel to hotel hiking in the high Pyrenees
Geology of the Pyrenees
Discover how the Pyrenean range was formed
Hike the GR11
A practical guide to hiking the GR11
Wildflowers
Discover the spectacular flora of the Pyrenees
Bearded vulture
This huge bone eating vulture is one of the Pyrenees emblamatic species