About us

At 16 I joined the military and spend 8 incredible years travelling the world and spending as much time in the great outdoors as possible, during my last 2 years in the military I worked as a Skydiving Instructor and realised then that working in an outdoor pursuits’ environment was my dream job. After leaving the military I met my beautiful wife and entered into a completely different career, like many others I allowed myself to get sucked into the daily grind of a job I didn’t really enjoy, however all that changed when Maria and I moved to Catalonia in 2006 to peruse the life we always dreamed of and a job we both love.

Maria has always loved the outdoors; she spent many years in the Territorial Army and most weekends you’d find her walking/running in the hills close to where she lived in Manchester or up in the mountains in the Lake District where she gained a lot of fell walking experience.

Des is a former Royal Marine, he has extensive outdoor persuits experience across the globe, from the Arctic in winter to the Asian jungle and the South American Andes and holds the UK Mountain Leader qualification. A passionist cyclist, Des regularly leads groups in the Pyrenees and surrounding areas, often entering local cycling events and making the podium in his age category!  When he’s not tackling the mountains on his bike he can be found exploring the local hiking trails with his wife Suzy and crazy Springer Spaniel Murphy!

Suzy is former skydiver with over 1000 skydives, in fact she is from a family of skydivers many of which are still involved in the sport and competing and working at very high level. She loves road cycling and hiking in the hills and mountains around her home and up in the high Pyrenees with her husband Des and their beloved Springer Spaniel, Murphy.

A former Royal Naval deep-sea diver, Steve is a consummate adventurer. His lifetime quest for perusing the great outdoors has taken him to the most remote parts of the planet – including trekking in the Amazon and camping wild in the Namibian desert and Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Today Steve and his wife Lynnie have made their home in Catalunya, where Steve passionately pronounces the region and bordering Pyrenees Mountains as one of the greatest adventure playgrounds in the world.

From an early age Lynnie has never been able to resist the call of the trail and her desire and enthusiasm for being in the mountains and ‘at one with nature’ is still as strong today as it ever was. Always looking to challenge herself and continue her outdoor journey, Lynnie recently climbed Africa’s highest Peak – ‘Kilimanjaro’. Lynnie firmly believes ‘to walk in Nature is to witness a thousand wonders’, and in a place as beautiful as Catalunya hiking is an incredible and enriching experience.

Hamish meets many of our guests, he likes to work very hard in his own special way and can often be found playing in the sea, rivers and muddy puddles in his free time.