Tag: Couserans
Snowshoe in the Pyrenees
A DIFFERENT way to travel in the mountains during winter – that’s snowshoeing. You wear special snowshoes which are a bit like mini-skis – the old tennis racquet type are history – and trek through virgin snowfields. “If you are a summer hiker, snowshoeing in winter will suit you,” says specialist company Pyrenean Odysseys. The [...]
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Autrefois le Couserans
Every year on the first weekend of August, one of the biggest events in the Ariege region of the Pyrenees takes place, Autrefois le Couserans – The Past Couserans. Over 700 volunteers are involved with tractors, cows, sheep to relive the life of Couserans past.
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Bears breeding in the Pyrenees
ARE bears breeding again in the Pyrenees? It seems so – two young bear cubs were spotted with their mother by hikers in late July in the Couserans, a district in the Ariege National Park. The three brown bears were seen “playing on patches of snow for more than an hour” according to a statement [...]
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