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Parking at a place called La Caillaudrie at the north-eastern exit of the hamlet of Négressauve: the crossroads is very wide and offers space to park around ten cars without obstructing traffic.
(S/E) Enter Négressauve via Rue de Brioutel. At the first junction, turn right into a small street between two houses, then right again where the street quickly turns into a path. This path runs alongside gardens and leads to Chemin du Rulot.
(1) Turn left onto this path. Pass the two houses on the right and turn right immediately after the second one. You must go all the way round this house and take the path that appears, turning left at the back of the gardens adjoining the houses in the hamlet. This path runs alongside a small Protestant cemetery situated at the bottom of a garden. Continue on to Rue de Negressauve: you’ll reach it at a right-angle bend. Follow the right-hand lane straight ahead, leaving the other branch of the street which joins Rue de Brioutel (the main street in Négressauve).
(2) At the crossroads, turn right onto Chemin des Acacias. Leave Négressauve via this path. At the crossroads near La Proutée, continue straight ahead and follow Rue de la Proutée.
(3) At the junction with the Route de Vee de Melle, turn left. The road remains level and moves away from the houses before reaching the first dwellings of Le Luc. At the next junction, continue straight ahead, passing a first road on the right and immediately a road on the left.
(4) At the junction with the first farm track, turn right into Rue des Champs. This leads to Le Luc de Verrines. Follow it and cross Le Luc, then take Rue du Luc to the junction with Rue de la Pyramide. Turn right and immediately left into Chemin du Petit Souper.
At the end of this path, turn left onto Chemin du Coteau, which soon joins Route de la Doie; take this road by turning left.
(5) When you reach the first of the two cemeteries (on the right), take the path on the right, walk alongside the cemetery and continue. This path leads, near a cross, onto Chemin de la Racaudrie (road); turn right onto this downhill road, cross a small valley and begin to climb again.
(6) At the first T-junction, turn left towards Follet. Cross a small bridge, and a little further on, before a second bridge spanning the Belle near the entrance to Follet, turn right onto a steeply ascending farm track. The climb soon levels off considerably. The farm track runs alongside the Bois du Quart.
(7) Further up, turn left onto the forest track which, after a few hundred metres, joins a road coming from La Mouline.
(8) This road is initially level. Just as it begins to descend steeply, a forest track starts opposite on the right-hand side of the road. Take this track. A few hundred metres further on, the track passes in front of a traditional, isolated house. The track curves to the right before winding its way along. A farm track joins from the right; ignore it and continue to the left. At the next crossroads of tracks, follow the one on the right uphill, which quickly opens out onto a plateau between fields.
(9) At the T-junction of farm tracks, turn left towards Feu. The track skirts the Garenne valley. At the entrance to the hamlet, leave a road on your left and continue along the road opposite.
At the end, continue straight on along the farm track.
(10) When you reach a road at a T-junction, turn right.
(11) At the junction of the road and a farm track, about two hundred metres before a water tower, turn left onto the farm track. The track climbs slightly (less than 10m). At the top of the hill, leave a farm track on your left. The farm track crosses a small road twice: on both occasions, continue straight ahead. As you approach Négressauve, leave a path on your right.
Just before the finish, the farm track joins the road coming from La Proutée. Another fifty metres or so and you reach the car park which was the starting point for this walk (S/E).
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