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Start from the small car park by Brenas Church (often full at weekends).
(S/E) Retrace your steps to the Fork in the road, take the right-hand lane and, immediately afterwards, turn right onto the Ancien Chemin de Vernazoubres. The steep lane quickly becomes a tarmac track leading to the last few houses. Follow this track to the second junction, just past a telecoms mast.
(1) Leave the main track and turn left onto a path through the woods, climbing westwards then north-westwards to the Crête du Mont Caussil (elevation 504)
(2) Turn right onto the Chemin de Campillergues, which winds through the woods on the western flank of Montbringues. After about 300 m, the path crosses the stream, then descends to join the Chemin des Lignières, leading to the Vernoubrel ford.
(3) At the ford, cross the Vernoubrel stream to reach Vernazoubres, a charming little village nestled against a limestone cliff, with its old houses adorned with flowers. At the crossroads in the centre of the village, turn right onto Rue Roque Colombe. On leaving the village, continue for about 400 m along the Chemin des Aires, a small tarmac road. Walk past a quarry on your left.
(4) About a hundred metres past the quarry, leave the road and take a wide path climbing up the hill. As you leave the quarry, the path veers right towards the south-west and runs along the right-hand side of a large field bordering a woodland, then climbs up to the ridge as far as the Croix de la Durante.
(5) At the junction at the Croix de la Durante, turn left onto the ridge path over the Serre de la Bardine and head south along the lava flow, following a section ofthe GR®7to Valquières.
(6) In the village of Valquières, leave the village to the east, following a short stretch of the D8E5 departmental road towards Dio. After about 150 m, just before a long field bordering the left-hand side of the road, leave the departmental road and take a path on the left (markedGR®7). The path descends gently through the woods. Follow theGR® for about 300 m. At the fork just before the stream, leave theGR® and take a path on the left, heading down towards the Ruisseau Le Garel until you reach the ford.
(7) At the ford on the Garel, cross the stream at a circular bend in the track and immediately head back up the other side. Feel free to cut across the hairpin bends of the track, which is overgrown with brambles. Shortly before the Col des Baumes, the track joins the D8E5 departmental road. Follow the road for about a hundred metres to the Col des Baumes junction.
(8) Turn left onto the D8E6 departmental road. Follow the road for about 500 metres until you find a path starting on the right (before the pumping station). Leave the road and take the path on your right, which winds down to the Vernoubrel stream. Cross the stream and head up the western slope of Montbringues until you reach the junction with the Chemin des Lignières.
(9) Follow the path to the right to the Puit des Lignières (tapped spring).
(10) Continue off the path for about 200 metres, following the dry stream bed for a good hundred metres. Very soon, you’ll reach a rock face and the confluence of two streams. Leave the main stream bed here and head up to the right, off the beaten track and through the woods, for another hundred metres or so until you cross the Chemin de Campillergues, which you took on the way there.
Turn right onto the path that climbs south-west and takes you back to the Crête du Mont Caussil.
(2) Leave the path you took on the way there on your left and continue along the Chemin de Campillergues. This descends due south through the Ségala woods and joins the D157 county road just before the bridge over the Ruisseau de Lirou.
(11) Immediately after the bridge, leave the road and take the path on your right, the ‘Ancien Chemin du Col de la Merquière à Brénas’. This runs alongside the D157 departmental road, overlooking it, and rejoins it very quickly at the entrance to Brénas. At the entrance to the village, take the first uphill street on your left and continue to the church (S/E).
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