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Go to the centre of the village of Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette and park in the car park below the village hall and in front of the church entrance.
(S/E) Leave the car park towards the church and immediately turn left onto Avenue des Ateliers. Cross the bridge over the River Ternay.
After the bridge, turn left onto Avenue des Tissages. Continue straight ahead on this street until you reach a crossroads. Keep to the left, cross the bridge over the Ternay and, a few dozen metres further on, you will reach a second crossroads.
(1) Turn right onto Chemin de Taillis Vert until you reach a fork.
(2) Turn left onto the stone-paved path. Continue straight ahead uphill until you reach the junction with another path.
(3) Cross it and continue straight ahead, still uphill, until you reach a tarmac road. Turn right onto this road and continue for about 50 metres. Leave it at the first junction, taking a dirt track on the left uphill until you reach another road. Take this road on the left for about 100 metres until you reach an intersection.
(4) Turn right (towards Menhir du Flat). The tarmac road ends and becomes a dirt track. Continue along this track. Keep going, turning right at a hiking signpost and ignoring the path on the left.
A few metres further on, take the path that branches off to the right, slightly uphill, towards Menhir du Flat, at another signpost. Continue to Menhir du Flat.
(5) After admiring the site, retrace your steps to find the path again and continue along it, turning right. After a sharp bend to the right, the path joins another path. Follow it to the left and continue along it until you reach an intersection after crossing the Combarot stream.
(6) Leave the path and take the path on the left. At this point, a small wooden sign indicates the direction of Misérieux (if it hasn't disappeared one day). The path continues uphill at a fairly steep gradient. Continue straight ahead, ignoring all the paths branching off to the right and left, until you finally reach a tarmac road. On this road, keep to the right and then leave it after about 50 metres to take another road on the right (Impasse du Moulin Mea). Continue along this road until you reach a path branching off to the right.
(7) Take this path and descend towards the hamlet of Moulin Mea. Cross the stream (the Ternay) via a small bridge and continue uphill to the right. The path joins a road at the hamlet of Le Mas Du Cheval.
Turn left in the hamlet at the intersection and, at the next intersection, still in the hamlet, turn right. Continue for about 30 metres and, leaving the road, take the dirt track on the left.
(8) Here you will find a hiking signpost. Continue along the path. When you reach a crossroads, turn left and after about 20 metres you will come to a tarmac road.
Cross this road and continue straight ahead on the dirt track until you reach a crossroads.
(9) At this crossroads, there is a hiking signpost (Le Sauzet). Turn right here and continue along this path until you reach a tarmac road. Follow it for about 60 metres, then, at a bend, leave it and take a dirt track on the left.
Continue straight ahead until you reach a crossroads with a hiking signpost.
(10) Turn right downhill towards Le Verdier and cross this hamlet.
(11) At the exit, the path joins a road. Cross this road and continue on the dirt track opposite, downhill.
During the descent, ignore a path on the left, then a few metres further on, continue along the path that makes a sharp turn to the right, ignoring a path that goes straight ahead.
Continue straight ahead downhill until you reach a crossroads at a "Sainte-Blandine" hiking signpost.
(12) Turn right here (GR®65). From this point, the red and whiteGR® markings will guide you almost to your destination.
After walking straight ahead for about 500 metres on the wide main path (ignoring the paths branching off to the left and then to the right), leave this path and head across the fields towards the Croix de Sainte-Blandine, visible on the left.
::13: After enjoying the view of the Rhône valley from here, retrace your steps to rejoin the path (GR® 65) and continue along it until you reach the hamlet of Combe Noire.
(14) Cross the hamlet and, after passing the last house, take the path with steps on the left, which descends. Continue along the GR® 65, ignore a path on the left and continue to the hamlet of Chatagnard.
(15) Cross this hamlet on the tarmac road and, at a left-hand bend, leave the tarmac road and take a dirt track that branches off to the right and climbs uphill (part of the Way of St James).
At the end of the climb, the path leads to a road, which you should take on the right.
(16) Not far from this crossroads is a bench with a plaque stating that it was donated by a pilgrim on the Way of St James.
Continue along the tarmac road and, at the first crossroads, take the road on the left downhill (Rue du Plateau Marchand) towards the centre of the village of Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette.
At the bottom of the hill, in the village, turn right onto Rue du Faubourg, then about 20 metres further on, turn left.
Cross the bridge over the Ternay again, which you crossed at the start, to reach the car park (S/E).
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