Access: head to the car park at La Chaume du Rouge Gazon. You can reach it via the D66 from Remiremont via Le Thillot, Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle and the Col de Bussang. In Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle, take the D90, which will take you there via Les Charbonniers. Rouge Gazon is the end of the D90 and is also a ski resort with a mountain inn.
(S) Leave the inn on your right and join the path that runs behind the buildings. Continue until you reach a three-way junction.
(1) Take the path (Blue Rectangle) and head into the forest to climb up to the Col des Perches junction.
(2) Cross theGR®®5, go straight on and descend along a fairly steep path to the right of the Lac des Perches reservoir.
(3) Cross the reservoir and, at the end of it, at the lake information sign, take the small path on the left (Blue Rectangle) which climbs back up into the forest to the Rocher du Corbeau.
Continue, keeping to the right at the junction for Moyenne Bers, until you reach a three-way junction for Haute Bers.
(4) Continue to the left, skirting around Moyenne Bers, then descend via a series of hairpin bends towards the Lacs de Neuweiher. Pass to the right between the two lakes. Turn right towards the inn, leaving the Petit Neuweiher on your left. Continue to the inn along the forest road.
(5) Continue along this road, passing the inn. Go uphill and, after 400m and a hairpin bend, take the path on the right (GR®® 531 – Blue Rectangle).
(6) Continue on thisGR®® 531 – Blue Rectangle through the forest to the Gresson farmhouse inn. On leaving the hamlet, leave the road and continue to the right, still following the Blue Rectangle signpost.
(7) Turn right at the Blue Cross–Blue Triangle junction and follow the path for 150m, then turn right onto the Blue Triangle. Continue along this path to the Col des Charbonniers and rejoin theGR®® 5 – 5F (Red Rectangle).
(8) Turn right and continue on theGR®® 5 - 5F Red Rectangle. Pass beneath the Source du Hêtre spring and then above the Haute Bers refuge. After 100m, turn left onto theGR®® 5F Blue Rectangle/White Rectangle/Blue Rectangle
(9) Continue climbing along thisGR®® 5F for about 600m (alt. 1189m).
(10) Turn left and descend along theGR®® 5F (blue/white/blue rectangle) to La Chaume de Rouge Gazon and then the car park.