Outdoors made to measure adventure hikes  & trekking anywhere you want in the French, Spanish or Andorran Pyrenees.

Through trekking along the Pyrenean  high level trail HRP from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.

Don't worry if you don't like following marks be it long distance footpaths (GR 10 or GR 11, La Senda) or marked parts of the Pyrenean High Level Route (HRP). Find right away that exciting hike, survival trek or family adventure holidays, trekking including camping in the wild, enjoying mountain sceneries, observing wildlife, fishing or photography, ...  off the beaten paths that suits your level of fitness.

Looking for that special tour you're dreaming of? for a experienced mountain leader with a university degree in teambuilding? for a guide used to hiking with families? Our Pyrenees Guide Service offers what you're looking for.

Determine your level, have a look a the suggestions ( anything else is also possible) and Contact Richard and together draw up a trekking , hiking tour or combined tour and stay in mountain huts anywhere in the Pyrenees between the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.  

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Possible areas for trekking or made to measure hiking in the Pyrenees include the more famous Pyrenean massifs Canigou, Carlit, Pic d'Estats, Romedo, Alt Sobira, Certascans, Mont Valier, Val d'Aran, Aigues Tortes, Sant Maurici, Maladeta, Possets, Aneto, Neouvieille, Monte Perdido, Ordessa, Vignemale, Balaïtous, Pic d'Ainie, Parc National des Pyrénées etc. 

Pyrenees Guide Service allows any made to measure trekking :

• improve your body condition naturally and at your rhythm,
• train efficiently towards a higher level of fitness,
• chose that areas of the Pyrenees you want to explore,
• stay overnight in tents, warded or not warded huts as you prefer,
• make up an hiking program according to what you are looking for : walking, hiking, trekking, backpacking, natural fitness training, mountain scenery, observing wildlife or flowers, wilderness camping, making an effort at your own rhythm, map-reading and orientation, meditation, body awareness, teambuilding, cool survival or some of all of these,
• at any time of the year and on dates which suit you.

SUGGESTIONS from our Pyrenees guide service

for Hiking & Trekking in the Pyrenees

See this years hiking suggestions program. Each of those hikes in the Spanish or French Pyrenees or elsewhere can be adapted to your level of fitness and what you're looking for.

NB: our guide does not like "tourist as if hiking" or fake adventure trekking as proposed by guides and companies who don't live in the Pyrenees and only know them from trail descriptions in books and a short exploration before starting or even some years ago.

That kind of "trekking" sticks to well know trails and huts. You would not even need a guide for since most of them are now marked or in plain on the maps. However they don't mind to ask you a lot of money for that.

 Richard prefers taking you along unpublished trails, through passes used for smuggling long before the European Union existed or during world war II for helping people escape to Spain. You won't find these routes in books and many of them even disappeared from the more recent ordnance survey maps. Only shepherds, hunters and people living here still know where they were and find them. Ask Richard to adapt  that kind of unforgettable adventure holidays  to your level of fitness, that of your group or kids.

Here's another suggestion from our Pyrenees Mountain Leader:

LUCHON TO MIGLOS VIA VAL D’ARAN, MONTGARI AND THE VENTELAO LAKES

This tour, mainly in Spain, takes you even further away from civilization by way of one of Richard's alternatives to the marked long distance path on the border between France and Catalonia.  We pass by twenty or so deep blue tarns and 4 splendid mountain ranges with ever more beautiful views.  The scenery is a harmonious mix of forest, meadows, mountains and lakes that you find only in the Pyrenees.  The climate is delightfully Mediterranean and dry.  We follow in part poorly marked paths, with here and there a cairn, and go even further from the civilized world. 

Here eagles and vultures rule the skies and wolves can be seen from time to time, and perhaps also one of the few remaining bears. Montgari is an old mountain hermitage and typical shepherds place of pilgrimage. The Ventelao lakes are a area of outstanding natural beauty with far reaching views over the central Pyrenees.

We climb the peaks of Puig d’Estats ( 3.143m) and Montcalm (3.077m) and trek back into France along an old almost forgotten smugglers' path.

• Rendezvous at Luchon railway station (with comfortable sleeper train from Paris).  However overnight in Miglos with group travel to Luchon will be organised for those staying at the gîte.
• We pass Fos, Montgari, Ventelao, Tavascon, Certescans, Romedo, Broate, Puig d’Estats, l’Artigue and finish at Miglos.
• Overnights in lightweight tents at scenic spots or in conformable unmanned Catalonian mountain huts.

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