Circular walk starting from Bondoufle

Thanks for that information.
The ‘official’ walk is scheduled for Sunday 18 February: if you could let me know about any changes by then, it would make my life a lot easier – thanks in advance.
Enjoy your walks!

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Unfortunately, I’ve also realised that the expansion of the recycling centre has rendered part of the route obsolete. I’ll try to find a detour to sort this out. As for the car park, you’re right and I apologise – it isn’t easy to park in this lovely part of Bondoufle. I’ll change this by starting the route in front of the town hall/church.

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Date of your route : Jan 06, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

An easy route to follow, except between Echarcon and Braseux Farm (points 10 and 11), where the path is blocked due to roadworks, making it very difficult to find the rest of the route as there is no truly passable path.
The car park mentioned in the description could not be found.

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We explored the route yesterday; it was easy on the whole and presented no difficulties, except between points 10 and 11, where the path leading from Echarcon to the Braseux farm was blocked, just after passing under the pylons.
This is no doubt due to the expansion of the waste treatment centre, with work currently underway on the access road to a new building, but it caused us some difficulty: the area under construction was off-limits, and there was no visible alternative route, with a huge, very long embankment several metres high on both the left and right.
We opted to go round it on the left, but had to make our way along field edges and embankments that were ill-suited for walking – the ground was muddy and slippery, cluttered with dry scrub and brambles, and we had to navigate ditches filled with water – before we could finally make our way back towards the Braseux farm, a 2-kilometre detour off the marked path.
Before suggesting this walk to our group, I’d like to know if there’s a more direct route – and, above all, one that’s less of an ‘obstacle course’ – to get past this obstacle.
I also have a minor concern about the car park indicated: ‘Allée du Bois des Folies’ is a circular road serving the houses in a lovely housing estate; I drove round it without finding any proper parking for several cars, apart from the odd unoccupied space in front of some houses. Could you advise me?
Thank you

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Date of your route : Jan 18, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A pleasant walk on a cold but very sunny winter’s day; we did the route in the opposite direction without any problems;
it’s interesting to combine varied routes through the countryside (fields, woods) with active industrial sites (recycling centre) or those under construction (e.g. sheep in front of a piece of construction machinery)

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Date of your route : Sep 18, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Very busy route : No

The first part of the walk features some really lovely scenery. Then we come face to face with MOUNTAINS…… of rubbish from sewage treatment works. If you’re into ruined landscapes and foul odours, this is the walk for you. What a shame.

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The sole aim of this route is to give the people of Bondoufle the chance to visit the Montauger site without having to take their cars. Admittedly, the scenery along the way isn’t particularly idyllic, I grant you, but this landfill and waste-treatment site is part of our environment, just like the electricity pylons that supply Paris. Here in Essonne, we have to put up with these visual and odour-related nuisances – that’s just the way it is. But I fully understand your reaction.

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Date of your route : Sep 18, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★☆☆☆☆ Very disappointing
Very busy route : No

Whilst the Montauger estate is very interesting and well worth a visit, the rest of the walk is a stroll along the edges of fields that is completely uninteresting.
Worse still, for a significant part of the route you’re walking through an extremely degraded environment where sewage treatment tanks, a massive waste disposal centre and a landfill site make up the lovely bucolic landscape!
For a good half an hour, the stench is almost unbearable – it stinks to high heaven!
It’s better to visit the Montauger estate by car, even if it means walking there and back along the GR trail, which runs alongside the estate.

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Hello
As I don’t have a car, I didn’t go on the suggested route – which was actually quite interesting
I didn’t go on it because it was too far from the RER stations
Thanks anyway.

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