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Departure from the large car park below the Murianette town hall.
The entire route is marked in yellow.
(S/E) Head south, going up the street to the nearby roundabout.
(1) Turn left onto Chemin de l'Église, towards "La Tour" (500 m). Walk 120 m past the church.
(2) At the fork, turn right onto the "montée de la Tour" and climb up to the first bend.
(3) Continue climbing, with courage, straight ahead on the Piste des Molinières.
The yellow markings are clearly visible (the other path on the right is private, so do not venture onto it). Continue until you approach the Molinières houses.
(4) At the crossroads, continue straight ahead, taking the south-east-facing climb towards La Pérérée and Venon. After about 600 metres, choose between two paths that lead to the same place. Stay on the yellow trail (path ascending to the right) or ascend the steeply cut path opposite, which also turns right after barely 30 metres.
(5) Turn right and continue towards "Venon (5.08 km)", "Forêt de Combeloup (2.88 km)", "Les Combes (0.36 km)" and you will come out on the Pérérée road (D291).
(6) Turn left for 30 metres, then right up the tarmac road to Combeloup, towards "Venon (4.72 km)" and "Forêt de Combeloup (2.52 km)".
Cross the hamlet of Les Combes and continue to the Combeloup farm.
The markings are still yellow.
The tarmac road passes behind and above the large farm and gives way to a stony path leading uphill, heading south-east, which is the entrance to the Combeloup State Forest. Continue for 250 m after the farm.
(7) Keep to the left (yellow signpost: "Forêt de Combeloup 1.63 km") and climb to the highest point of this hike, where you will come to the end of a large track.
(8) Turn right onto a new downhill path, then head west towards Fontaine Bénite (0.66 km) and Pressembois (1.16 km).
The path leads to a tarmac road, 100 m from Pressembois.
Head west on the uphill tarmac road until you reach a chalet below, the first house in Pressembois.
(9) Just after the chalet, turn right onto the double L-shaped cattle grid and head north on the descending path towards Champ Duret. (direction "Gières 4.49 km", "La Faurie 2.9 km", "Champ Duret 2.2 km").
Follow the path between the two meadows to the woods. At the edge of the woods, cross a second double L-shaped cattle grid.
Go down the path and watch out for the next fork, which is not obvious.
(10) Turn right, towards the east, at the crossroads (small 1 m high post), towards "Champ Duret 1.730 km". Continue on the descending path which winds once to the left, then once to the right.
(11) At the end of this descent, turn left, heading north, onto the descending path, without
crossing the Pisse-Vieille stream.
Set foot on Chemin de Panama, a somewhat long but bucolic path that heads southwest for over a kilometre. At the end of this path, you will come to a descending path.
(12) Turn right and take the path downhill towards the northeast. Head towards "Murianette 2.58 km" and "Pisse-Vieille 1.4 km". Continue for another kilometre until you reach a fork in the woods.
(13) Turn left (marked in yellow) to descend steeply for the last 400 metres until you reach the Pisse-Vieille stream at a place called La Perrière.
(14) Cross the existing bridge or, if the stream is too big, go lower down the street and then take the path going up, heading east, which leads to the tarmac road (Route de la Pérérée, D291).
(15) Cross carefully, go to the other side and follow the path uphill until you reach the hairpin bend on the same road.
(16) Turn left, heading north-east, and descend to the Murianette roundabout, which you passed on the way there.
(1) Turn left, following the same route as on the way there, and return to the Town Hall car park (S/E).
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