Summer walks part 4
Bujaruelo back to Panticosa – Day 2
WAKING up in San Nicolas de Bujaruelo is an experience you will never forget. Even in high summer,...
Around Aneto
Day 2 part 1
The second leg of the walk is a dawn to dusk affair. It’s a brutally tough day’s walking – but also...
Panticosa round walk – day 1 (part 1)
The route from Panticosa to Formigal via the Tebarray pass (2,771 metres) is a beast of a walk in anyone’s book. It measures some...
Summer walks part 2
Panticosa to Bujaruelo Day 1 (part 1)
MAKE no mistake, this is a gruelling two-day walk. You will need to start early (before 07.00) and...
Winter walks – part 2
THE TENA Valley is the closest high-mountain area of the Pyrenees to the Costa Blanca. It offers almost limitless possibilities for hiking, with short...
Around Aneto
Day 3
THE FINAL day of the walk is a stroll in the park compared with what has gone before.
With just 8km to cover back...
Around Aneto – the practicalities
By Dave Jones
THE THREE-day walk described over previous weeks took the protagonist into the glacial heart of the Pyrenees.
The route circled the highest peaks...
Pyrenees paradise – Part 1
If you like your lakes (glacial, of course), then this is the place for you.
The ‘ibónes’, as they are called in Aragón region, are...
Cataluña’s lakes – part 4
HAVING completed the 4.4km from Cavallers reservoir to the stepping stones just short of the Ventosa i Calvell mountain refuge, there are several options...
Walking into France – Day 1
This two-day walk sets out from Baños de Panticosa following the GR-11 trans-Pyrenean footpath to the Bachimaña Alto reservoir, where our route carries straight...
Walking back to Spain
Day 2 – part 1
THIS is one of the hardest day’s walking you will ever do. The route will take between 9.5 to 11...
Between two windmills
By Dave Jones
THIS route could be called a short walk in San Pedro del Pinatar regional park – for that is what it is....
Deaths in the mountains
SPAIN is the second most mountainous country in Europe after Switzerland.
It is home to some stupendously beautiful mountain ranges that beg to be explored...
Benasque – part 2
By Dave Jones
WITH autumn arriving this week, heralding the start of the walking season in south-east Spain, there is still time to escape to...
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