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

by Rosa | Jun 8, 2026

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.

Hitting the (nursery) slopes

by Phil | Feb 21, 2009

Thursday saw us out on the slopes of Formigal. Fabulous day for it – clear blue skies once again, great snow conditions and being a weekday the slopes were empty. Kerry hasn’t skied before so Anna gave her a crash course – sometimes literally! Kerry got on really well…

Kerry’s first snowshoeing adventure

by Phil | Feb 18, 2009

Our friend Kerry has come over for a half term holiday and yesterday we took her on her first snowshoeing outing. Lots of snow last week but blue skies and sunshine everyday this week so we had perfect conditions. We took a route from the border to a peak called…

A trip to the alps

by Phil | Feb 2, 2009

Last week was spent in Gran Bornard in the French Alps on a snow shoeing training course. Great location in a valley with mainly nordic skiing and snow shoeing. Great weather with sunshine each day – absolutely freezing before the sun came over the mountains…

A night at Camp Nou

by Phil | Jan 25, 2009

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…

The cliffs of the Sierra de Partacua

by Phil | Jan 18, 2009

Yesterday hiked from one of my favourite villages in the area – Aso de Sobremonte. It’s set in a hidden-away hanging valley that makes you feel like you’re a million miles away from anyone else. There’s a lovely horseshoe which just begs to be hiked.

First outing on the snow

by Phil | Dec 1, 2008

The first big snowfall of the year has arrived and Anna and I couldn’t wait to get out on the snowshoes. After a few cloudy, snowy days the weathers cleared and we’ve wonderful blue skies. We headed over the Somport pass (north of Jaca) jus over the border into France.