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Park in the church square.
(Start/End) Turn your back on the statue of Notre-Dame des Bergers, walk past the farm on your left and continue until you reach the path that climbs to the left after the hiking information board. Turn left: be careful, this steep path on schist is slippery, especially after rain, so take care. Follow it until you reach a wide track (Piste du Bourraguill).
(1) Continue uphill to the left, walk for about 100 m and go through a cattle grid.
(2) You’ll see the return path on your right, but carry straight on and pass the Fontaine de Courneau (watering hole). Continue along this track for about 1 km until you reach another watering hole (Tos de la Coustette) at elevation 702.
(3) Leave the track; a narrow path begins and climbs to the right up the earthen slope. Follow the narrow path as it cuts across the slope and, about 450 m further on, you’ll emerge into a large fern-covered area. Follow the track which climbs straight up the slope (caution: steep slope, take care) for about 450 m; pass beneath a rocky barrier at elevation 941 and emerge onto a grassy plateau where herds are grazing during the summer: please keep your dogs on a lead , do not approach the animals and walk round them.
(4) Continue along this broad ridge, keeping to the right-hand side. 300 m further on, the path, which had faded into the meadow, becomes clear again and turns northwards into a wood along a more comfortable track. Follow it until you reach the Col de Saüdarie, where there is an active shepherd’s hut: dogs must still be kept on a lead.
(5) Walk past the hut and continue straight on for about 1.2 km to Point No. 5: I would add ‘Turn left straight away, and after a right-hand bend, veer left again to......
(6) At the pass, take in the view: Trône du Roi, Col de Napatch, Le Biscacou and Souturou. Turn round and head back to the Col de Saüdarie.
(5) This time, turn your back on the hut, look out for the post (marked in yellow) indicating the altitude and set off diagonally down the grassy slope towards the south-east, following the track made by passing animals. Follow this for about 300 m (marked in green) until you reach the drinking troughs at the Fontaine de la Lie.
(7) Turn your back on the drinking troughs and continue your route, first heading north-west parallel to the finishing trail, then turning west towards a large rock beneath which there is a drinking trough.
(8) Head down past the boulder and the watering hole, diagonally towards the south-east, until you reach a tree-lined hedge. Then turn right and follow it until you rejoin the wide track you took on the way up.
(2) Turn left.
(1) Continue along the track until you reach the D241.
(9) Turn right and follow the small road with care until you reach the church square (S/E).
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