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Park in the small car park on the right before the bridge when coming from Cascatel-des-Corbières, or on the left after the bridge when coming from Albas.
(S/E) The trail starts opposite the car park. Follow the “geological walk” markings, go round the small lake and join a wider path. Follow it to the right for about 50 metres, then leave it before it rejoins the road to take a path on the left.
PR®® markings: yellow line and dot
(1) Pass the access to the main road on your right, walk past the dinosaur egg site and continue left towards the village.
No signposting
(2) When you reach the first houses, turn left for your first panoramic view. Walk alongside the first vineyard, then turn left onto a small path between two vineyards and turn right to walk alongside a second vineyard. Panoramic view across to the other side of the syncline. At the end of this, take three successive bends to rejoin a well-marked path leading to the D106 at the cemetery, where it joins the Geologist’s Walk.
PR®® yellow stripe and dot markings
(3) Follow the road to the left, passing a wine press on your left.
(4) Leave the road and turn right onto a wide path to begin the first climb.
(5) Once you reach the top of this climb, the ruined mill on your right opens its doors to reveal its millstones, still in place. Retrace your steps slightly to rejoin the wide path below on the right: several outcrops on the ground and along the edges amaze us and provide insights into our geological history. Looking up, the panorama opens out before us and, to our right, the Pech Agut rises to its peak. You reach a junction marked by a sign for the “Geologist’s Walk”.
(6) Turn right to cross a dry stream bed, then begin a new, longer climb leading to the Roucadeu ridge.
(7) Turn left to continue along a narrow path. Please note: the path indicated opposite goes round Pech Agut and takes you back to the mill ruins. After about 500 m, a sign points to a narrow path on the right leading to a magnificent view, with information provided on a map display.
(8) Return to the path and continue to the right until you reach a junction at the end of the ridge.
(9) Turn right and begin a rather steep descent on loose, stony ground: proceed with caution. At the bottom of the descent, the path continues straight ahead. Cross the small wooden bridge and follow the gardens. Cross the vineyard, then turn right onto the main road and walk for about fifty metres.
(10) Take the path on the left. Turn right shortly afterwards to follow the Ruisseau du Prat stream and reach the entrance to Albas.
(11) Turn left onto the road. About thirty metres further on, take a small path on the right which rejoins the road a little further on. Continue to the right and negotiate the left-hand bend.
(12) Leave the road and head right to find the dinosaur eggs.
(1) Turn left, then keep left at the next junction, following the sign for “retour parking”. Return to the main road, follow it to the right for about 20 metres, then turn right to rejoin the path taken at the start. Head straight ahead and retrace your steps in the opposite direction to return to the lake, then to the car park (S/E).
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