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By car: From Sare, take the D306 and drive up to the Lizarrieta Pass. Park in the large car park.
(S/E) From the car park, take the track heading south-east. Pass in front of the Idoikua suspended pigeon loft.
(1) At the flat area, stay on the track and ignore the descent to the right. You will reach the Etxalar pidgeon hunting hut with a pidgeon hunting hut tower on the right with pylons for setting up nets.
(2) From there, leave the track just after the border marker, taking a path on the right that climbs moderately (ignoring the next one that climbs up the ridges). The view on the Spanish side is splendid. You will arrive above the track you have just left and descend via a small path.
Continue along this track to the right, which is initially flat but then climbs. The view of the French coast is superb. The track soon passes between a green-roofed hunters' lodge and the Usoen Ithurria fountain.
A little further on, you will reach the Col de Nabarlatz.
(3) Take the track on the right which leads to a signpost and border marker 50, then follow a path on the right which climbs slightly alongside a wood. At the edge of the wood, continue on the right along this path which soon descends.
(4) When you see a crossroads below (with a beautiful view of Atxuria opposite), descend to the left and cross the track. Continue along this path, ignoring the first path on the left, until you reach a new crossroads in a hollow.
(5) Turn left to take the track heading west, then join the Route Forestières des Pidgeon Hunting Huts.
(6) Take it to the left to reach the Col de Nabarlatz.
(3) Continue along the outward route to reach the Etxalar pidgeon hunting huts (including the stone tower hide, which you avoided on the way out).
(2) Descend to the left, passing near the pylon palombière and then along a Spanish hunting lodge decorated with commemorative plaques. Behind this building, and before the Auberge Palomeras Usotegui, climb the path on the right that joins the track at the first crossroads at the start.
(1) Take this track on the left and arrive at the car park (S/E).
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