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Departure from the Allées Paul Marty car park, near the town hall.
(S/E) Cross Avenue de l'Hers to reach the small Place du Souvenir opposite, then follow Place de la Volaille and walk along the market hall. Turn right at the stop sign, cross Grand Rue and continue opposite along Rue du Cers until you reach the level crossing.
(1) After the level crossing, turn left onto Chemin de Roujairou, which runs alongside the railway line.
after 200 metres, leave this small road and turn right onto a stony path called 'le Rouquet', which quickly turns into a grassy path. This climbs northwards up the hillside through fields.
(2) You will come out onto a small road, the D95, which you take on the left. Leave a small road on your left and continue straight ahead. The road crosses a small bridge and then climbs up the hillside.
(3) Leave the road at the hairpin bend and take the dead-end road on the left, known as Fourtanier. Just above, you can see the Château de la Terrasse (17th century), a testament to the wealth of the grain farmers of the time. At the houses, the tarmac continues as a grassy path, offering the first views of the Pyrenees. Continue to a crossroads.
(4) Turn right and follow this new path straight ahead, leaving a path on your left 100 metres further on. Join a tarmac path which rejoins the D95.
(5) At the stop sign, continue straight ahead on the Chemin de las Barthes Basses. 500 m further on, under a power line, the road turns left towards a farm. Leave it and take the grassy path opposite and follow it downhill. At a small pond, ignore the two paths that branch off to the right and stay on the original path, which turns right and then runs along the left edge of the woods, staying at the bottom of the valley.
(6) Pass the ruins of Rouaret. The path climbs gently, then at the next crossroads, leave the path on the left which descends steeply and continue on the same path to the right, climbing uphill.
Join a small paved road at the foot of an electricity pylon.
(7) Take the road on the left (Chemin d'En Gala), ignore a path descending to the right and continue straight ahead to the next crossroads 600 metres further on.
(8) At this crossroads, leave the tarmac and take the dirt track opposite, which continues to climb gently. You will arrive at the highest point of the circuit, with superb views of the Lauragais valley, the Montagne Noire and, above all, the entire Pyrenees mountain range. The path descends gently towards the D38.
(9) Cross the D38 carefully (traffic) and follow it to the right, then immediately take the small road on the left, Chemin de Saint-Jeante. After a steep descent, at the crossroads, take the small road on the right,
(10) After 300 metres, leave it for a grassy path climbing slightly to the left towards the hamlet of Les Cabosses. In the hamlet, take the tarmac path on the left, which immediately turns right and continues straight ahead along a stony path.
(11) 400 m further on, the main path forks to the left, climb up this path and follow a grassy path that continues in the same direction and descends into the valley. The path climbs up opposite and arrives at a ridge with a road starting on the right, which you ignore. Continue straight ahead on the descending path that leads to the crossroads at the watering hole below.
(12) Ignore the path on the left and take the one on the right. It climbs up and comes out onto a small road which you follow to the left towards the Church of Sainte-Colombe, which you can see below.
(13) At the next crossroads, in front of the church, turn right.
(14) 400m further on, after the Sainte-Eulalie bridge, before the road climbs steeply, take the track on the left which runs straight along the hillside for 1.5km. Ignore the turnings on the left and right. The path then climbs up to Baziège and comes out onto a private road which you follow to the next crossroads.
(15) Take the paved road on the right and, after 100 metres, turn left onto a grassy path that descends to Baziège. At the stop sign on the D38, continue straight ahead.
(16) Go under the railway bridge, rejoin the Grand Rue and cross it to continue straight ahead. Then turn right into Allée Paul Marty to return to the car park where you started (S/E).
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