A walk in the forest amongst the heather

Car park at the small park in Logbiermé.

(S/E) The sign for the walks is on your right; head straight on.

Blue Cross markings

The road turns into a dirt track after the last houses. Once back on a forest track, continue straight on for about 1 km until you reach another wide track.

(1) At the junction, continue straight on until you reach the multi-way crossroads.

(2) Continue straight on, with the stream on your right.

Signposting: Blue Cross – Black H – Blue Cross

Follow the Mont-le-Soie stream. The path turns right, not far from 2-metre-high orange posts. At the T-junction, turn left until you reach the next junction.

(3) Turn right.

No markings

Ignore the path with other markings on your left and head downhill. Ignore the^first hairpin bend to the left and continue downhill for a few metres to the next one.

Blue Cross Markings

(4) Take the hairpin bend to the left. Panoramic view of the valley. At the crossroads, continue straight ahead. Enter the forest and walk to the hamlet of Croix Ma Quet.

(5) Continue straight on and pass a clear-cut area. Enter the woodland again. At the fork, turn right until you reach the crossroads at the hamlet of Borne 101.

(6) Turn left towards the hamlet of Mon Legros.

(7) Continue to the right. Pass the spot known as Borne 102; it is 40 m into the plot, and a poorly cleared path leads you there. Returning from Borne 102, continue straight on along the main path. Pass the spots known as Borne 103 and 104 (optional, as they are not in good condition). Continue along the path and turn right at the junction. You will come to a crossroads at the place known as Chemin du Luxembourg.

(8) Carry on straight ahead to the next crossroads.

(9) Turn right towards Marker 105 and the Pas d'âne. Retrace your steps, turn right and stay on the main path for about 1 km until the next crossroads.

(10) Turn left. Once back on a forest track, continue to the left. At the crossroads, at the edge of a meadow, carry straight on. Leave the woods; a stream joins the path. At the road, turn right and return to the car park of the small park (S/E).

Muddy in places
No drinking water along the route
In freezing weather, sections of the route can be difficult as streams cross the paths we use, turning them into veritable ice rinks across their entire width.

From October to December, please be aware of hunting dates; we will be using route 13.

During

Croix Ma Quet: A family member had got lost in the woods during the night and promised to erect a cross if he was saved.

Mon Legros: former site of a farm. Building demolished in 1876.

Chemin du Luxembourg: Throughout the Middle Ages and until the end of the 19th century, this was a major route linking the north and south, with the distinctive feature of running along a ridge overlooking the village of Logbiermé and leading towards the peaks dividing the river basins of the Salm and the Ourthe to the west, and the Haute-Amblève and the Our to the east.

Pas d’âne: a mysterious stone, which legend holds bears the hoofprint of the donkey that carried the infant Jesus during his flight into Egypt. Others see it as the hoofprint left by Saint Remacle’s donkey, when he and his master travelled the borders of the principality. The central hole, it is said, is always filled with water, even during the most severe droughts. Barren women ask the miraculous stone to grant their wish.

Boundary stones: The Belgian-Prussian boundary stones mark, in accordance with the decisions of the Congress of Vienna (1815), the former border between the Kingdom of Belgium—which was still part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands until 1830—and the Kingdom of Prussia.