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Parking is available in the village of Mézilhac, in the church square or the surrounding squares.
(S/E) Leave the church square to the east and join the D102, which you take on the left. Immediately after, take the path that branches off to the right of the cross and heads towards the orientation table.
(1) After going around the hill, the path heads south. Opposite a signpost, leave this path and take a path on the left that runs almost horizontally through a grassy amphitheatre. Remember to close the gate behind you and the next one.
At the three-way junction before entering the woods, take the right-hand branch. In the woods, the path becomes a road and then joins a small paved road. Continue right on this road.
(2) At the crossroads, turn left and continue along this small road until you reach the D122, ignoring the signposted path on the left.
(3) After crossing the road, take the path that climbs straight up into the woods, leaving the red and yellow markedGR® de Pays on your left and a more horizontal path on your right. To avoid the rocky and unpleasant forest track, you can use parallel sections of the old path, sometimes to the right and sometimes to the left of the track.
(4) After an initial climb through a beech forest, the path arrives at a flat area with an unobstructed view to the right. Leave a path on your right. At the end of the flat area, a second path on the right is marked on the map but is not visible. Continue climbing through the woods.
From here, the path is not always very visible but it follows the IGN map well. In the last section, however, it deviates slightly from the map, turning right and then left along a narrow path in the middle of a blueberry field.
Even if you feel like you are getting a little lost, keep climbing and you will eventually come out onto the forest road that goes around the knoll.
(5) Take this road on the left and descend while admiring the view of the Alps on a clear day.
(6) Just after a stream, take a path going uphill on the right (open the gate and close it behind you). At the next crossroads, after a gate, turn left. The path goes around a volcanic knoll and arrives at the ruins of the Bourlateyron farm. Close all the gates here too.
(7) At the farm, you will arrive at theGR® de Pays marked in red and yellow. Cross straight ahead to take a path marked in white and yellow. The start of this path is a little difficult to spot due to tree felling. Leave the felled tree trunks on your right and continue along the north side of the ridge. Further on, the path descends, then turns right and climbs back up alongside a fence.
(8) Leave the paths on the right and left and continue straight ahead until you reach a hiking signpost.
(9) Take the path that climbs up to the right and arrive at the summit of Cham de Mars (orientation table).
(10) Retrace your steps along the same path to the ruins of Bourlateyron.
(7) Instead of turning left, continue straight ahead on theGR® de Pays, which you will follow until you reach your destination.
(11) At the crossroads, turn right, continue to the D122, then resume the outward route until you reach the crossroads in front of La Feuille farm.
(2) Leave the road you took on the way there on your right and continue on the left to Mézilhac (S/E).
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