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Departure from the Source du Lichteneck car park, on the edge of the D1062 road at the exit of Niederbronn.
(S/E) Take the wide path marked with a red rectangle, leave the spring on your right and follow the D1062 on your left.
(1) Leave the marked path by taking the first path on the right. Follow it until it intersects with the path marked with a red triangle.
(2) Turn left and follow the marked path. After about 300 metres, leave the wide path and take a steep path on the right (still marked with red triangles). Climb the winding path to reach a new wide path.
(3) Turn right (off the marked trail) to quickly reach a viewpoint called Les Hauts de Lichteneck. Retrace your steps.
(3) Continue climbing northwards, following the Red Triangle markings.
(4) After a few hundred metres, leave the wide path and take a trail on the right (still marked with red triangles). Cross three paths in succession, stay on the red triangle trail and ignore a few side trails. Join the Grand Wintersberg circular trail.
(5) Follow this Blue Ring marked path to the left.
(6) After about 350 metres, turn right onto the path marked with a red rectangle towards Grand Wintersberg. Follow the numerous hairpin bends (handrails, wooden steps). When the slope levels out, continue straight on towards the clearly visible summit tower (accessible tower offering a beautiful view of the Northern Vosges).
(7) Continue on the red rectangle trail, which descends the north slope towards the Col de la Liese. There are numerous switchbacks here as well.
(8) At the pass (Club Vosgien chalet open on Sundays), follow the Blue Ring markings to the right.
(5) At the next junction, which you took on the way there, continue straight ahead. Continue to follow the blue ring markings on the wide path that goes around the Grand Wintersberg to the west. At each junction, follow the signs for Col de la Liese.
(8) At the pass chalet, this time take the path marked with red rectangles that starts behind the playground and runs parallel to the paved forest road that descends to Niederbronn.
(9) Sheltered by the Pottaschkopf, first turn left then right to follow the path marked with municipal boundary stones due east towards the Col du Borneberg.
(10) At the Col de Borneberg, follow the path marked with yellow crosses that descends due south.
(11) At the bottom of the slope, near the paved forest road, turn left. Stay on the yellow cross trail, which roughly follows the forest road but remains 200 to 300 metres higher. Continue along the forest trail for about 2 kilometres.
(12) At the crossroads, descend to the right and immediately turn left to resume the path parallel to the forest road, still following the Yellow Cross markings.
(13) At a fork, go down to the right, following the blue and red rings. Cross the road to the swimming pool and go down the steps. Then turn right towards a restaurant and then left onto the red rectangle path.
Pass a roundabout on the left and return to the car park where you started (S/E).
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