The Crête walk

Date of your route : Nov 04, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

The hike offers a truly remarkable view of the Vercors and even Mont Blanc (when the weather is clear!).
Please note that the path marked on the map at elevation 410, which descends towards the farm known as "Lacour", does not exist (in my opinion).
The route is easy to follow with one exception: at elevation 421, 220 metres before point 3, a path identical to the one marked at point 3 appears with a marker. Do not follow it.
The lack of parking at the starting point is a shame, so I would suggest a small variation that would allow you to park your vehicles and reach the tower. I therefore suggest starting at point 1 (as the route from the starting point to this point does not add much to the hike) and continuing after point 3 to the tower, then returning to point 3 and heading back.
Please note that at point 4, the path runs parallel to the tarmac road at the start and is not very visible or clearly marked.

Machine-translated

Date of your route : Feb 06, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Not very easy to find, but a very pleasant parish-specific to Brittany route with beautiful views. Have a good morning!

Machine-translated

Date of your route : Jan 22, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★☆☆☆☆ Very disappointing
Ease of following the route : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

Machine-translated

An update that serves no purpose in the description:

Update: Saturday, 10 April 2021:

"Starting point at Bois des Fourches. Please note, there is no parking at this location."

The starting point has been moved, but the problem remains the same: where do we park? There is no parking on your route.

@ visorando website: you are well aware that people are parking in front of the neighbourhood fire hydrant following the publication of your route, which has no parking.
So, noted, and this may be useful in the event of a fire: you cannot say you are not aware of it.

Machine-translated

"Ah, I see, so you're one of those 'people' who complain about church bells ringing, roosters crowing, or tree frogs croaking..."

You don't understand anything... and for good reason, since I have a pond with frogs... and I'm not the one whose property is crossed by a public footpath.

It's more than I can bear to see people posting "hikes" without giving any thought to the nuisance they cause... and without thinking of a route that is less disruptive to local residents and has a car park.
What's more, you don't know anything about hiking, since you're suggesting an 800-metre section... which has to be retraced in the opposite direction to get back... not even capable of making a circular route...

You don't mind creating a route that crosses a garden, and much of the route is on tarmac or a path open to all vehicles. You don't mind passing in front of a lodge, and you don't mind that there is no car park...

It's clear from your responses, such as:

""""The path is communal, so I don't see what the problem is!!!! """"""""

we can guess that it doesn't bother you.

"""Thanks to the moderator, I didn't think it was worth responding to this kind of malicious 'character'"""
Thanks for what?
Do you think everyone thinks like you?
Malicious character? ...you've got some nerve! ...you're the one who published a route hastily drawn up in two clicks, without any parking spaces and therefore causing a lot of inconvenience, and you're calling me malicious?

That said, and I admit it, you have no ability or aptitude to draw a route, so it wasn't you who published this route, but Visorando.
Indeed, we cannot trust a complete stranger when it comes to safety, nuisances, pollution, ecology, etc.
It was Visorando who published this route, supposedly verified by three "volunteer moderators".

"""This calls into question the very existence of these hiking sites... which were originally created for everyone's enjoyment."""
False analysis: Visorando has published nonsense: take a trip on the weekend or a public holiday and you will see if a rider wants to gallop with their horse among tourists, motocross bikes and pushchairs.

"Visorando attaches great importance to the quality of the routes it offers."

...as we can see...

""it calls into question the very existence of these hiking sites...""
It's time to think about it, but for now there haven't been enough deaths on these kinds of wild "hiking" trails...

Machine-translated

Ah, I see, so you're one of those 'people' who complain about church bells ringing, roosters crowing or tree frogs croaking...

I understand about private roads, we agree on that... but when you buy a property crossed by a public road, you buy it with full knowledge of the facts. So complaining several years later seems a bit easy to me...
Unfortunately, that's how human beings are.
It calls into question the very existence of these hiking sites... .😕 which were originally created for everyone's enjoyment.

Machine-translated

(2 Visorando routes near my home)

Visorando isn't the only option... If you search online, you'll find several other websites (Strava and others that I'll leave you to discover) offering mountain biking, trail running and hiking routes that pass by your home.

However, I agree with you that it's important to locate the starting points of hikes in places where people can park without disturbing local residents or encroaching on their private property.

Machine-translated

Published a route to be done on horseback... without being able to park a van at the start... are you serious?
Are those the criteria for publication?
It seems more like: we'll publish anything...

Machine-translated

But where do these hundreds of hikers come from?

Moreover

Machine-translated

Finally, after 10 years as a moderator, you know that it's not just about downloads, so
we add to it, and I imagine that there is obviously no need to download the routes: a simple photo of the route on a smartphone is enough for a lot of people... copying and pasting, converting to PDF, reading the site live, the route on paper is enough, from memory too, and then there's word of mouth, etc...
There's also the repetition on other sites, which are also downloaded, photographed, noted, etc...
But anyway, as a "moderator", you didn't even know that two routes pass through the same place... supposedly it's checked three times...
But anyway, "volunteer moderators" who publish 5,000 plots per year... on a commercial site...
"Human beings are unfortunately like that."

...who are you telling that to...you don't care about the nuisance your route causes, and you have no respect for local residents...and who intervenes in the event of an accident on the ground?
... Is it Visorando that takes people who fall off their horses to A&E?
...as you say... "human beings are unfortunately like that"...

*** Route marked in the "horse riding" section... Route with no parking... So where can you park a horsebox...

Machine-translated

Thank you to the moderator. I didn't think it was worth responding to this kind of malicious "character".
Besides, if you can read properly, I'm not talking about the car park "at Bois des Fourches", but the starting point of the walk.
Just so you know.
Have a good evening 😀

Machine-translated

Good evening, RIVERAIN,
You write:

It's not you who has 150 people passing through your garden every day on weekends and public holidays.

Since 1 January 2021, there have been 41 downloads of this La balade de la Crête hike from the visorando website . And for the whole of 2020, there were 56 downloads. But where do these hundreds of hikers come from?

Machine-translated

"""I'm not talking about the car park at Bois des Fourches, but the starting point of the walk."""

If you suggest a route on the website with a starting point/finish point, where do people park?
People arrive by car and park where?

Besides, reread all the posts above: everyone says they did it on foot, I'm not making anything up.

With rare exceptions... they come by car and cannot park on private property, so they park right on the road...
... and if they arrive with a van with two horses in it, it's even worse: there's no room to turn around... so they have to reverse 300 metres... on the map it's flat, but not on the ground... and the path isn't wide... you have to be used to it, you can't just take the van out once a year and expect to be able to manoeuvre it...

Otherwise, the cars: they also park in Mr X's vineyards, and around his water tap.

They park in his vineyards.

They even park at the lodge, whose owner is forced to ask them to leave... indeed... some of them also have picnics... when they're not looking for something in his workshop...

They even park in front of the neighbourhood fire hydrant... you can probably guess where it is...

They park next to houses and therefore inevitably on private property.

Yesterday, I went to see some residents who are on the same routes as me because I am fed up with the excesses of the routes published on the internet: 250/300 people pass in front of my house with all the nuisances that go with it.
(Two routes pass in front of my house, including yours without parking).
(see my numerous posts on the forum by clicking on my username)

Everyone is as fed up as I am... and some are even worse off.
The owner of the vineyards and water gates: fed up
(this local resident counted only 170 people passing by his house last weekend, obviously with some omissions as he has other things to do (this local resident has only one route passing in front of his house)

The owner of the lodge: fed up

The owner of the "start of the route": fed up

Little by little, the traffic has intensified and is now at its peak.

Perhaps the conditions for publishing routes should be reviewed?
On-site checks?

But as you know, the routes are not checked on the ground, they are checked "online"...

Talk about "hikers" to the residents mentioned above, whom you surely know, and you will see their reactions...

If you do talk to them, perhaps you could mention the fact that you published the route... delicately... saying something like, "Ten years ago, things were very different from how they are today"... even though ten years ago there was already no parking on your route.

I also suspect that you are not going to directly announce to them, "So, how about the hiking route I published that passes in front of your house?
What's more, as I've done things properly, I haven't planned for any parking spaces, but I think you're easy-going and don't mind people parking outside your house any old way..."

Machine-translated

Hello

"At the very bottom, we pass through the garden of a house (but the path is communal)."
Perhaps you could change the route. Would you like someone to publish a "hike" that passes by your house?

As the path is communal, I don't see what the problem is!!!! But it's relatively easy to criticise, isn't it?

Machine-translated

Please note: no parking available.
The start and finish points are marked on private property belonging to a local resident.
Could this be reviewed?

"At the bottom, we pass through the garden of a house (but the path is communal)."
Perhaps the route could be changed. Would you like someone to publish a "hike" that passes by your house?

Machine-translated