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Park in the car park at the top of Ménez Hom.
GR®®37signposting (white and red): very discreet
(S/E) From the car park, take a path through the vegetation. Follow it downhill in a south-westerly direction, keeping your eyes on the summit known as Hielc’h (298m), dominated by a wooden post bearing an anemometer and a small solar panel. Walk straight down until you reach a flat area.
(1) Go round the summit to the left, then leave theGR®® which drops off steeply.
Unmarked
(2) You’ll easily reach the summit, from where the view stretches across Douarnenez Bay and Cap de la Chèvre, one of the headlands of the Crozon Peninsula.
Now begin the descent (watch out for sharp sandstone) and follow a faint path through the vegetation heading north-west. Join a path coming down from the right (GR®37)
(:3) At a wind vane, turn left to complete the descent.
(4) At the next crossroads, right at the very bottom, head towards the Trégarvan Communal Forest.
SignpostedGR®® yellow and red +PR®® yellow.
(5) At the next junction, at the entrance to the pine forest, pass aPR®® sign on your left and veer left to follow theGR®®37(signposted ‘Route de Lost ar Run VTT5’). Cross a pine forest where traces of the 2006 fire are still visible. Cut across a small road and head for the hamlet of Kerfréval.
GR®® markings: yellow and red
(6) At the first houses, follow the small road opposite, which leads onto the D60.
Turn right onto the small road, then turn left onto the first track.
The purple route is no longer accurate: the track has become a private road.
No signposting
(7) Turn right and follow this road carefully for about 700 m until you reach a track on the left just before a bend.
PR®® Yellow
(8) Turn left onto the track and head down alongside the Anse de Ster ar Pont Men to reach the Aulne, which you follow to the right towards the Trégarvan slipway.
(9) Walk round Saint-Budoc Church, a beautiful 16th–17th-century building surrounded by its cemetery, and cross the village. Just before the town hall, turn left onto a path that continues as a service road for a few houses, then turn right at the second street to rejoin the main road.
Unmarked
(10) Turn left into Impasse Pen ar Palud and continue straight on along the farm track which leads to the bank where the River Aulne meanders (viewpoint).
(11) Retrace your steps back to the road.
(10) Follow it to the left, leaving the access road to Keryé on your left.
PR®® Yellow
(12) Take the next path, still on the left, and head towards the hamlet of Kergantic. Pass through it and rejoin the D60, which you follow to the left for about 200 m.
(13) Just before a ruin with a section of chimney still standing, turn right and follow the path uphill. Ignore the paths to the right and left until you reach a small road. Turn right towards Kernévez.
(14) Before the hamlet, turn left onto a track to join another road at a reservoir. Follow this road to the right.
(15) At a three-way junction (signposted ‘dead end’), let the road continue towards Kervily and take the path on the right. Follow it uphill until you reach a crossroads (barrier)
(16) Let the mainPR®® path head off to the right and turn left for 50 metres, then turn right onto a new PR®®. Follow this path, then leave thePR®® when it turns left (protected area sign)
No signposting.
(17) At the barrier and the ‘No Motorised Vehicles’ sign, continue straight on (south-west). After a wetland area, and before the tapped springs, turn right and head uphill. A little further up, join a new PR®®path.
Yellow markings.
(18) First turn left then right and head uphill through an area of pine trees, also scarred by fires. To the east, there is a sweeping view over the Châteaulin Basin and its wind farms. The path becomes rockier (Armorican sandstone) and winds its way through the bare heathland.
(19) At a flat stretch, leave the path on the right leading to a summit (267 m) and turn left to begin the steepest ascent along a stony path. Reach the Yed, the main summit of Ménez Hom at 330 m. Panoramic views over the Aulne valley, the new Térenez Bridge and, on a clear day, the city of Brest. Head back down to the car park (S/E).
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