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.
Mating Swallowtail Butterflies
Anna took this fantastic picture of a pair of Swallowtails butterflies mating last week on one of our Peaks & Passes walking holidays. We regularly see these colourful butterflies on our walks but we’d never seen them mating before. Sorry for the lack of blog…
Lakes & Valleys June ’09
Last week Jenny, Donna and Caroline joined us for a Lakes & Valleys guided walking holiday. We had superb weather particularly for the first half of the week and had great mountain views with clear blue skies overhead. Our first days hike took us to the Ibon de…
Rasal to Loarre Castle
On Sunday Anna and I hiked with the Sabinanigo walking club from a village called Rasal to Loarre Castle taking in the peak Puchilibro (1595m). Domingo hemos hecho una excursion desde Rasal a Castillo Loarre con el club de montana Sabinanigo. We set off from Rasal and…
First guests of the season
Last week Hike Pyrenees welcomed it’s first guests for the season and our first from the US. Our walk on the first day took us through the medieval villages of the Serrablo. These ancient villages have some of the finest examples of Romanesque churches anywhere…
Walking in Valencia
Over the Easter holidays we headed south to the beach and do some walking. We stayed in Oliva – just north of Denia. Really nice beach (which we took a fantastic horseride down) and some good walking with wonderful spring flowers nearby. The Penyal d’Ifrac…
Village Life in Spring
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…
Griffons in the snow
March 8th is women´s day in Spain and we celebrated by taking a relaxing walk in the snow. Along our trail we saw Griffon Vultures, Great Tits, Long-tailed Tits, Red Kites and pine processionary caterpillar nests. After all the wind and snow we´ve had recently here…
Snow shoeing with the walking club
Fantastic snow shoeing trip today with the Sabinanigo walking club to Pic l’Iou just over the border in France. Hoy hemos hecho una excursion muy bonita con raquetas con el club de montaña Sabinanigo. Beautiful weather again and being the first weekend the…
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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