We’ve just emailed out our first newsletter as “new” MountainBug. For those of you who aren’t on the email list (taken from past clients), you can read the it here. To get the next newsletter straight to your inbox, please subscribe to it via our contact us page, with the title “Subscribe to newsletter”. We […]
The ski resort has closed and we have all gone on our holidays. We all decided to visit the motherland, the UK, just as the heavens opened. It has not stopped raining for three weeks. We are all missing our mountains! In the meantime, we have written two articles you might find interesting. The first […]
The sun is shining and spring is starting to arrive down the valley. As you drive up to Bareges, there are lambs and baby goats in fields that are slowly turning green. The first flowers are starting to appear although it won’t be until June that the mountains will burst with colour and scent. As […]
The resort has had 30cm of new snow since yesterday, with friends reporting “the best powder I have ever skied in”. This is great news for our Easter holiday UK guests who will be arriving next week. The resort is 80% open with 70cm of snow on the pistes at 1800m and 140cm at 2500m. […]
Following a great couple of weeks, we’re currently receiving more snow, with another 20cm forecast over the next few days. Together with light winds, the Pyrenees are providing a fantastic last few weeks of the season. One of our guests enjoying some boarding Another guest enjoying a “day off” snowshoeing, just above Bareges Due to […]
While this week’s guests have been enjoying beautiful snow under clear blue skies, we launched our new website. We hope you find it informative and interesting. Naturally, there will be glitches and errors, so if you find any, please do contact us. If you are already booked on a holiday with us, then please be […]
-If you want to experience the winter mountains, away from the skiers and pistes, then we recommend you try one of our guided snow-shoeing holidays. We’re running one in March and there are still places available on it. The price includes:– full board accommodation, based on two sharing, at either our chalet, Les Cailloux, or […]
So far, February has been a busy month. It began with a wonderful, huge dump of snow, up to 2 metres in some parts of the resort, and then a week later another huge dump. Combined with days of clear blue skies and sunshine, our February’s MountainBug guests have so far enjoyed perfect ski conditions. […]
MountainBug Director, Martin, ended last week by skiing over to La Mongie for a complimentary trip up the Pic du Midi. He had a tour of the observatory and found out how our guests can visit this amazing place. We’re doing a new trip this summer which includes visiting the Pic du Midi observatory and […]
Last week our snow-shoeing and skiing guests were joined for two nights by Dave Watts, co-founder of the influential book and website, Where to Ski and Snowboard. Dave was on a whistle-stop tour of the Pyrenees. He’s written a blog post about his time here http://www.wtss.co.uk/blogs/thin-snow-cover-but-good-piste-skiing-and-friendly-people-in-the-pyrenees. After the traditional end of January lull for a […]