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Start from La Noviche (small car park).
(S/E) Turn left (opposite the bread oven) onto the forest track leading to the village of La Terrasse. 250 m from the start, turn left. The track crosses a beech forest, passes a small stream (the boundary between the communes of Olmet and Le Brugeron) and continues through the beech forest. (Currently, due to beech felling and log hauling, the track is in a sorry state, but still passable!). At a bend, it begins to descend and enters a coniferous forest. Once the descent is over, the track runs on level ground to La Terrasse (200 m from the finish is a 200-year-old chestnut tree).
(1) On reaching the hamlet, turn left onto the tarmac road, continue for about twenty metres and, after the house with the recently built terrace, turn right onto the track and follow it for about twenty metres. When you reach the last house (a barn with a new roof and doors), turn left (do not go past the buildings and cross the remains of a dry-stone wall (under the trees) (small sign: La Faye)) to follow a drovers' road (a path for livestock), under the canopy of deciduous trees, leading to the D97. Do not cross the road. Be careful: you’ll reach the road at a bend. Continue along it for 250 metres and turn right onto a very steep path. At the foot of the slope, ignore a path on the left and continue along this one until you reach the stream.
A few metres further on, to the right, you can see the ruins of a mill. Cross the bridge.
(2) Immediately afterwards, turn left onto the path leading to the hamlet of Le Garret. Walk along with the Faye stream on your left, then follow a series of bends uphill through deciduous woodland. The path is lined with a dry-stone wall (after the conifer plantation was cleared, brambles have overgrown this wall), then you’ll reach a wetland area and emerge into the hamlet. Walk through it (old houses).
(3) At the top of the village, turn right and continue along the path (which can be very muddy at times; always keep to the left, as there is logging debris and new tracks have formed) until you reach the D41, on a path (about ten metres away, there is a damaged cross on the left).
(4) Take the path on the right to the ruins of the hamlet of Montolas.
(5) Pass the ruins and follow the path to the left: steep slope, stony ground. Cross the Montolas Stream and arrive at La Bessière.
(6) At the tarmac path, turn left, walk for about twenty metres, then turn right and walk along the edge of the woods. The hamlet of Le Cros appears on the left and, in the distance, the village of Le Brugeron. The path becomes very stony. Turn left and cross the Ru du Cros.
(7) Turn right to cross it and continue along the path to La Pommerette.
(8) At the crossroads, join the D102 by taking either the steep slope on the left or the dirt track straight ahead. Do not take the cul-de-sac on the right (a dead end for both pedestrians and vehicles). Follow the D102 to the right and head down to the public bridge over the Ruisseau de la Faye. Continue along the road for 800 m to the Carrefour des Mines junction (5 roads).
(9) Follow the D102 to the right as far as the bridge over the Ruisseau de la Faye. Continue along the road for 800 m until you reach the ‘Carrefour des Mines’ junction (5 roads).
(10) Takethe first right towards Augerolles and follow the D97 to La Noviche, 1 km away, and the car park (S/E).
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Visorando Member
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