La Ferme Durand from Beauregard

Date of your route : Apr 30, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

Everyone agrees that this is a route full of contrasts, starting off gentle but becoming rugged. In wet weather, the descent can be treacherous. It’s hard to find your way through this maze of paths, and the directions on the signposts don’t always match the description; fortunately, the GPS is a great help. Today, the misty weather meant we couldn’t enjoy the view.

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Date of your route : Feb 28, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : Yes

Hello,
A lovely walk. The climb from the Froussard farm is very steep for a good kilometre and a half. At the Durand farm, there’s a stunning view. It’s not easy to find this little path, which winds its way very narrowly to the right of the Durand farm. The path is marked with a red cross, although it is clearly indicated in the description. Furthermore, this path is exposed, so be careful not to take very young children there. Otherwise, a very lovely walk, well signposted. Thank you.

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Date of your route : Jan 29, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : Yes

The way back from the Durant farm is hard to find.

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Date of your route : Oct 25, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

Hello,

In my opinion, two points are worth clarifying in the guide:

1) To set off from the Durand farm, the path towards “Fontaine” starts to the left of the farm’s entrance gate; it is not very visible from the path overlooking the farm.

2) At “Pré Faure”, be careful to turn right and not left towards “Les Vouillants”, even though this direction shares the same name as the former “Beauregard” car park.

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Date of your route : Jul 30, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average

I’ve just finished this hike, so here are my thoughts. Be aware of the difficulty level: the distance seems reasonable and the elevation gain is fairly moderate, but it’s concentrated in a single section of the route. And as for the climb, it’s a proper climb! It’s steep for 200 metres before point No. 3, then becomes extremely steep when you turn left. And it goes on for a very long time… so in the end, this steep slope lasts a good kilometre and a half…If you’re planning to take children, be careful: after point No. 4, the descent follows a very narrow path along the hillside, which can be extremely slippery as the gradients are so steep in places. And yes, you do have to come back down everything you’ve climbed. Good shoes and walking poles are essential.
Fortunately, almost the entire route is through woodland, which is a bonus in this hot weather

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Good evening, and many thanks for this information on the elevation gain.
It’s true that, in this age of advanced technology, every hiker records their own measurements, and this obviously keeps advancing that little gadget Coluche used to call the ‘schimiliblicblic’. However, for this particular elevation gain, all you need to do to find its true value is plot the graph, then take the highest and lowest points and check the result with a calculator.
Result: 566.
So where does the fantasy come in?
Have a good evening.

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Date of your route : Apr 15, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

The elevation gain is staggering – a real 851 metres!
A steep climb from the Froussard farm
The highlight of the hike is the morels!

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Date of your route : Aug 02, 2016
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

A very beautiful but very tough hike; from the Froussard farm, the climb is steep and not for everyone
Otherwise, there’s a lovely view from the top and the descent is easier if you do the circular route
Thanks to Visorando for enabling us to enjoy lovely walks

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Thank you, Bernard, for adjusting the difficulty level. As for the comment ‘Disappointing’, that refers
the difficulty level alone. The route is very well signposted. Thank you

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I’ve just changed the difficulty rating to ‘Moderate’. Given the elevation gain, it certainly deserves this rating. The previous rating was ‘Easy’ because, as it was done in a group, it hadn’t caused any problems for the participants. That’s probably why I went along with that rating… which was an underestimate.
However, does the comment ‘Disappointing’ regarding the reliability of the description apply solely to the difficulty, or did the description not help you find your way?

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Hello, it’s true that this one could be classified as medium difficulty; I’ll leave it to the author to adjust the rating.
Apart from that, did you encounter any difficulties?

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Date of your route : May 05, 2016
Reliability of the description : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

This route is described as easy, but we found that description a bit of an exaggeration; ‘moderate’ would be more accurate.
Beautiful views.

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Export OK. I must have done something wrong because I was getting an empty GPX file.
Suggestion for improvement: could VisoRando recognise a GPS device connected via USB to the computer straight away?! ... just like some tools such as OpenRunner already do. That’s what I do regularly with my GARMIN62S.
But anyway, it’s already very handy as it is, and we can manage just fine with the temporary storage of the .gpx file in the Downloads folder
Happy hiking and well done, VisoRando
YP38430

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Hello, if you’ve been able to post on this forum, you can download the GPS track for the hike. To do this, click on the ‘Export GPX’ button. Then save the file; it will be saved to your computer’s Downloads folder.

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As a new VisoRando user, I tried to export the GPS data but was unsuccessful.
I gather, rightly or wrongly, that this export is only permitted for the route creator?
Am I right?
YP38430

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