Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees
Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees
We’d like to wish all of our friends and guests a very merry Christmas from all of us here at Hike Pyrenees. The ever growing Hike Pyrenees team had our Christmas meal in Jaca last Friday – much chuleton steak and vino tinto was consumed by all!
The formation of the Pyrenees is a tale that stretches back over 600 million years, with the tiny Iberian plate being pushed and crushed by the massive African and Eurasian plates several times through the course of history. Our guests are always asking about how the...
Springtime is upon us and alas we can't get out to see the first flowers of the seasons in the mountains. We know that many of you, like us, are missing the wildflowers. So let us bring the flowers to you in the form of our Pyrenees wildflower quiz. Text yourself and...
It's hard to believe with the current chaos in the world that only a few weeks ago we were out snowshoeing in the mountains and enjoying two great snowshoeing weeks! We had every weather condition imaginable from artic blizzards and whiteouts, to beautiful sunshine...
As everyone is well aware, the coronavirus/Covid-19 outbreak affecting travel throughout Europe and beyond. Whilst no one can be certain how long this situation will last, our thoughts that are that travel in April, May and probably June will be affected. Our hope is...
During high summer you can't drive private vehices into the Ordesa National Park and you need to take the shuttle bus from Torla into teh Ordesa Valley to access the hikes. The dates for the shuttle bus into the Ordesa Canyon from Torla have been published for 2020....
Happy Christmas from the Pyrenees!
We’d like to wish all of our friends and guests a very merry Christmas from all of us here at Hike Pyrenees.
Snowshoeing holiday: 7-14 March I’m delighted to say that our first snowshoeing holiday dates have been really popular and already full. We’ve several other people that would like to come, so we’re running a second holiday on the 7-14 March. The holiday will be based...
Winter has arrived early in the Pyrenees and it’s been snowing for most of November in the mountains, right down to village level. Formigal and Astun ski stations both opened last Saturday (16th Nov) – I’ve never known them to open that early before. From today...
Here are some more photos of the superb holidays we had last July in the Pyrenees. We had a fantastic month of hiking and while the temperatures were a bit on the hot side, we had lots of sunshine and the rainjackets stayed in the rucksack the whole month! Peaks &...