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Go to the village of Talencieux and park in the car park by the church and town hall.
(S/E) The hike starts at the bottom of the car park near the war memorial. With the church behind you, take the street lined with two stone walls (Rue de la Victoire) towards the small streets of the village, continuing straight ahead. When you reach an intersection, turn left onto Rue Centrale. Continue straight ahead on Rue des Vignes to reach a crossroads with a cross.
At this crossroads, keep to your right; you are now on theGRP® Tour du Bassin d'Annonay, marked in yellow and red. Follow these markings. You will come to a fork where there is another cross.
(1) You have a choice: either take the path on your left marked in yellow and red (route choice) or turn right onto a slightly more rural path. These two paths meet at a crossroads where you will find another cross. Continue on theGRP®, crossing the village of Balais. At a crossroads, you will find a hiking signpost.
(2) Turn left towards Lac de Vert.
(3) Here, too, you will find a hiking signpost.
Still following the signs, turn left, pass by the lake and then onto its dyke. At the end of the lake path, turn right into Rue du Suc de Buis. Go straight through the village of Vert and, at the exit, turn left, ignoring the straight ahead direction. You will soon come to another crossroads.
(4) Turn right, ignoring the path that goes straight ahead. Cross the hamlet of Peuclat and you will come to a right-angled crossroads with a hiking signpost.
(5) Take the road on the left and follow it to enter the hamlet of Tourtel.
(6) Several roads intersect in the hamlet. Stay on theGRP® trail to descend towards La Cance and cross the river via the stone bridge at Tourtel. You will then begin an easy climb. After a hairpin bend to the right, you will reach a trail junction.
(7) Leave theGRP® here and take the unmarked path downhill to the left. Be careful here: the first few metres of the path are not shown on the IGN map. Continue along a hairpin bend to the left and descend into the valley.
(8) Ford the Ruisseau de la Goueille stream. Take the path opposite, which climbs steeply. Stay on this path, ignoring any paths branching off to the right or left. You will reach the Ruisseau de Monoha stream.
(9) Be careful not to miss the narrow path that you take to the left downhill. It is not very visible at first and it is easy to miss. Ford the Ruisseau de Manoha again. At the next fork, turn left again to cross the Ruisseau de Pralong.
At the next intersection, ignore the path that descends to the left and stay on the right. The uphill path joins another beautiful path, which you take to the left. Then, ignore the paths and roads that branch off to the right and left and stay on the main path until you reach the tarmac road to Cormes.
(10) Take this road on the left and then, at the next intersection, turn right. Cross the top of the hamlet of Bruas. Just after crossing the hamlet of Bruas, leave the tarmac road and take the dirt track on the left. At the end of this track, turn right onto the tarmac road for about 100 metres and at the first intersection take the dirt track on the right. Continue straight ahead on this track, ignoring a track branching off to the left. Continue to an intersection where there is a cross.
(11) Cross the tarmac road and continue along the dirt track opposite, which passes close to Pestrain Castle. Continue along this downhill track until you reach the Tour d'Oriol. Turn left onto the yellow and white marked track to go uphill.
Across the path is a half-wood, half-wire fence. It is not locked, so you can pass through and close it behind you. Further on, you will come to a tarmac road on a bend, where you take the Beauvoir road opposite.
(12) Leave the tarmac road and take a dirt track on the right. Continue along this uphill track until you reach the hamlet of Masse.
(13) Turn right onto Chemin des Montaillières. Continue to the crossroads with Route des Combes.
(14) Cross the road and continue straight ahead in a north-easterly direction. You will reach the crossroads with the road leading to the hamlet of Les Fromentaux.
(15) Leave the tarmac road and take the dirt track that descends opposite. Ignore the paths that branch off to the right and left and continue straight ahead downhill. The path then descends more and more, winding its way down to the bottom of the valley and the submersible bridge over the Cance.
(16) Cross the bridge and continue on the other bank to reach the Cance Gorge road. Cross over to take the wide path that starts almost opposite and slightly to the right uphill. Continue climbing through the Tailla ravine in the undergrowth until you reach the first intersection, where you turn right. You will soon reach a second intersection where you turn left to finish the climb.
(17) Turn left onto the wide, clear path. Ignore a path on your right and join a tarmac road called Rue des Rameaux. Continue along this road until you reach the junction with the Route de Sarras (D370B), where you turn left.
Continue along this road until you reach the car park at Talencieux church (S/E).
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