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Park in the car park at the Fontenilles sports ground next to the sports centre.
(S/E) Leave the car park and head towards the roundabout. Before reaching it, cross the Route de Lias with caution (no pedestrian crossing) to take the D65 and continue towards the hamlet of Les Arramous.
(1) Leave the D65 and turn right towards the Grand Bois equestrian centre (Saint-Hubert). When the road ends, continue along the path that passes between the equestrian club's facilities. The path crosses the Grand Bois and, at the end of it, you will be in the Gers. Continue along the path until you reach the tarmac road on Chemin de Grousset. Continue left on the road until you reach the junction with Chemin de Secouris.
(2) Turn left at the crossroads, go around the beautiful wooden house and climb gently towards the Lias radar station (La Boule Bleue). The road becomes increasingly rough, turning into a track as it crosses the Lartus woods, then becomes a road again at the edge of the woods. The road climbs more gently, passing the hamlet of Pague and climbing more steeply towards the Chaü mill on the right-hand side of the road. La Boule Bleue begins to appear on the left; continue straight on to the foot of the blue ball, which is a tower topped with a blue radome housing the civil aviation radar.
(3) Just after the radar, turn left onto the gas pipeline path. The path cuts through the Bois des Arramous and descends quite steeply. Before starting the descent, there is a clearing with a path leading off to the right.
(4) Leave the gas pipeline path that leads opposite and turn right onto the path that runs along the edge of the woods at the bottom of the clearing, then enters the woods. The path descends to the bed of a small stream and then climbs back up to a tarmac road, the D534. Turn left onto the departmental road, cross the road carefully and continue to the dirt track that descends to the right near the sign for the hamlet of La Cabane.
(5) Follow the dirt track down to the Crabères stream bed, then climb back up to the site of the old Lias castle. At the end of the dirt track, take the road that continues on, crosses the Lias square and then descends to end at a dirt track that leads down to the Saint Lys road.
(6) Before reaching the D121 Route de Saint Lys, take the path on the left that enters the woods and, at the edge of the woods, follow the course of the Espinassou. When you reach another copse, the path climbs and follows the edge of the copse, moving away from the stream but continuing to follow its course until you reach a path leading to the wood merchant's.
(7) Turn right onto the wide path that climbs up to La Miraclette farm.
(8) In front of the farm entrance, continue straight ahead, continuing to climb and ignoring the path on the right that descends towards Bonrepos. The path follows the fence of the sheep farm, passes between two fields and crosses the edge of a wood, emerging at the highest point with a superb view of the surrounding area.
Then descend along the edge of the Magnolias wood before entering it and continuing to follow the path through the wood, without straying too far as the wood is private. At the exit of the wood, the path leads to the path surrounding the Magnolias residence.
(9) Turn left onto the path and walk along the western side of the residence until you reach the Espèche industrial estate.
(10) Turn right and continue along the path that leads back to the stadium, ignoring the path that branches off to the left to cross the Magnolias stream. You will arrive at the car park where you started, passing in front of the sports centre (S/E).
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