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Park at the side of the small road near the Loudon Ponds.
(S/E) Start by heading up this small road, heading north, and make your way to the hamlet of Les Loudonneaux.
(1) Turn right at Champ des Rochers and take rural track no. 42, known as the Gué-Boussas. Pass the houses and head up a dirt track. Carry straight on along a grassy path and go round the last house on the left. Then take a wooded path. At the junction, continue straight ahead. Ignore a path on the right. At the next crossroads, head straight on. Join a wider path and follow its S-bend.
(2) At the junction, continue to the right, then turn left and take the rural track known as Chemin des Bouleaux (No. 39). Continue through the pine woods. Come out onto a road and continue straight ahead.
(3) At La Garenne, turn left onto rural track no. 38 from La Préfecture to Les Aunais. Continue between the hedges. At the crossroads, ignore the hamlet of La Pelouse and take the road on the left.
(4) At the start of a wide bend, turn right onto a tarmac road towards the hamlet of Grand Bois Loudon, opposite the rural path of La Tabarelle. Then climb through the undergrowth on a stony path. Head towards the houses. Walk past the last house and turn left at a barn onto a narrower path, carved through the scrub (not shown on the IGN map). Head back towards the houses.
(5) At the junction, continue straight ahead, turn left onto the path to pass La Ricordière and rejoin the starting route.
Follow it to the right to return to the ponds and get back to your car (S/E).
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