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Departure from the Col de Navois car park.
(S/E) Takethe GR®76(section A) heading north. After about 100 metres, ignore the return path on the left and stay on theGR® by continuing straight ahead.
(1) About 1.6 km from the start, leave theGR®76for a small, less-used path on the left. It starts opposite a red/whiteGR® marker painted on a tree trunk. If you miss this junction, there is another one a few metres further on.
Head west and then quickly north, almost parallel tothe GR®, down the slope in the middle of a disordered wood where the box tree moth has wreaked havoc. On your left is the start of the small valley in the Corlay/Monceau-Ragny meadow.
(2) At the bottom of the slope, at the intersection of a perpendicular path, turn right to climb back up, still in the woods, the small ridge you just descended.
(3) At the top, a small directional triangle will help you find theGR®76. Follow theGR® to the left, still heading north-north-west from the start. Pass through the hamlet of Saint-Germain with the ruins of a church on your right. Continue to the large wooden totem pole that indicates the Chemin des Moines and Jugy.
(4) Turn left towards the small clearing and follow the north-west trail towards the village of Montceaux-Ragny. The path is steep and rejoins the meadow part of the small valley where you can see the first houses of the hamlet. Join the tarmac road coming from the Col de Navois.
(5) Turn right to cross the hamlet. After about a hundred metres, at the first fork, take the road on the left. In the centre of the village, with a small chapel on your right, pass in front of the surprising and touching town hall of Montceaux-Ragny. On the left, a few dozen metres after a cross, you will reach the open-air theatre.
(6) After your lyrical or dramatic interlude, return to the tarmac road and immediately turn left as you leave the theatre, taking the hedge-lined reconnaissance path to the small wood.
(7) At the first intersection of this path, take the small steep path on the left to find yourself now in the opposite direction, i.e. north-south. The Montceaux-Ragny valley is still on the left.
Follow the narrow path – single file automatically – which crosses through changing woods: more skeletal box trees, pines, hornbeams, etc. Come out onto a cart track coming from the right
(8). Follow it and keep going in the same direction.
(9) At the end of this forest path, almost at the edge of the woods, when you can see the water treatment plant and the meadows of the valley, take the stony path on the right, almost parallel to the road. Continue left at the fork, then left again opposite the agricultural shed to reach the hamlet of Corlay.
At the entrance, just behind the village sign, turn right and 100 metres further on, turn left to climb up a small path to a small meadow. This meadow features an old, dilapidated and graffitied bus shelter, or something that looks like one, as no buses pass by here! Continue along the ridge path until you reach the tarmac road.
(10) Cross it and follow it to the right for about 300 metres, then turn onto the path on the left which climbs towards theGR®76and joins it about a hundred metres from the Col de Navois.
Turn right and return to the pass car park (S/E).
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