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Park near the church in Dompcevrin.
The route is marked with blue directional arrows and is approximately 12 km long.
(S/E) Take the path that climbs up opposite the church. Behind the water tank on your left is a large picnic table. From here, you can enjoy panoramic views of the Meuse valley, stretching from the Dompcevrin quarries to Saint-Mihiel. Continue your ascent along the white path through farmland. As you approach the forest, you will see "Le Théorème des dictateurs" (Vincent Mauger, 2009) behind the first trees.
(1) Follow the path until you enter the forest, then continue straight ahead. When you leave the forest, you will walk alongside the field on your right. Further on, on your left, is a clearing with "Dreaming rebirth of ninth dragons" (Byoung-Tak Moon, 2002).
(2) Continue towards the entrance to the forest, then turn right at the crossroads.
(3) Further on, on your right, you will see the Gros Caillou (Big Rock), which gives its name to the hike. Continue along the fence on your left. High up on your left, you will see "Lilith" (Damien Deroubaix, 2015).
(4) About fifty metres after the fence, you will see a fluorescent green sign on your left indicating an access passage leading to "La molécule du territoire" (Évariste Richer, 2010). Retrace your steps, turn left at the next intersection, and you will see "Le mur de Ligier Richier" (Nayel Zeiter, 2017) on your right. Take the path down to the white path.
(5) Turn left and continue straight ahead for about 900 metres.
(6) Turn right onto the dirt track and continue. On your left, you will see a sign indicating an access passage that you must take to reach "Cachée" (Lorentino, 2006), then retrace your steps.
Continue along the main path and you will see "Nul caillou n'est un faux" (Béat Lipert, 2018) 10 metres on your left. Continue straight ahead until you reach the white path.
(7) See "Immigrare I" (Sanaz Azari, 2007) on your right. Follow the path and, at the end of it, turn right onto the forest lane until you see "Bee's Bunker" (Nicolas Floc'h, 2015) in a clearing. Retrace your steps to the white path and continue straight ahead. A few metres further on, on your right, you will see "Columbarii" (Daniel Nadaud, 2016). Walk on and turn right at the intersection. Discover "Dédale" (Maire/Schneider, 1999), indicated by a sign on your left.
:8:: You will come to a fork in the road. You can see the Marcaulieu hunting lodge below. Turn right. Continue until you reach the tarmac road.
(9) Turn left onto the tarmac road, then right onto the gravel path. Walk along and you will see "Das Aldernest" (Clément Laigle, 2008) on your left, above "Lieu de rêve" (Walther Piesch, 2002). Continue on to see "Enraciné" (Douglas White, 2014). Then walk about a hundred metres to reach "Pierre dorée" (Frédérique Lecerf, 2006). A few metres further on, on your right, is a small passageway leading to "Aire cellulaire" (Sébastien Lacroix, 2010). Return to the main path and continue to "La Ballade des pendus" (Emmanuel Perrin, 2003), which is located in the treetops on your right.
(10) About 150 metres after "Les pendus", take the path downhill on your left. At the bottom of the slope, turn right. A few metres further on, at the spring, you will find "Les métamorphoses de Champey" (Christophe Doucet, 2019) on your right. Continue along the path. A sign on your right indicates a passage leading to "La source escamotée" (Aleksey Sorokin, 2001), located in the stream 50 metres further on. Then retrace your steps and continue along the path for about 50 metres. On your right is "Labour A, B, C" (Conilh de Beyssac/Guissart, 2016). Continue on and you will see "Notre stère qui est aux cieux" (Buttier/Crémel, 1998). Further on, on your right, you will see a 7-metre column of wool, which is "Intrusion" (Yushin U Chang, 2014). A hundred metres further on, you will see "La migration du rhinocéros" (Roger Gaudreau, 1999). Continue until you leave the forest.
(11) At the edge of the forest, you will see a sign entitled "Dehors Dedans" (Miguel-Angel Molina, 2004). After the sign, walk along the field until you see "Gardien" (Marek Borsanyi, 1997) on your left. Continue along the path until you reach the tarmac road.
(12) Follow this road to the right. Continue for one kilometre, pass the cemetery at the entrance to the village, continue for another hundred metres, then turn left to climb up to the church and return to the starting point (S/E).
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