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Park in a fairly large car park located after the place called La Planche, at the end of the road that climbs from Novel (end of authorised traffic; signpost "La Planche à Brousoz, altitude 1205 m"). Access from Saint-Gingolph (French-Swiss border).
Signposts are present at major intersections
Red, white and blue markings
(S/E) Cross a stream and head south on theGR®®5 trailthrough the forest. Cross a pasture until you reach a signpost. Then turn right onto a gravel track.
(1) At the next sign, leave the track on the right and take a path on the left. At the next sign, turn left onto a path that starts in a meadow and continues through the woods.
Blue markings
(2) At an altitude of 1,330 m, turn left towards the Col de la Croix and Lac de Lovenex (let theGR®®5continue straight ahead). Cross the bed of a dry stream (in summer), go up its right bank and then turn left. You are now in Switzerland.
(3) At a signpost, continue climbing towards Col de la Croix, located near Grande Miette, a distinctive peak clearly visible high up to the south-east. The slope becomes steeper. Follow the left bank of another stream, then leave it to make a wide loop to the right. You will come out at the bottom of a small valley, which you climb to reach the pass.
Markings: Yellow diamond framed in black
(4) Turn right towards Pas de Lovenex (signposted), a path that begins to descend slightly (do not take the first path on the right that climbs up to the foot of the Grande Miette). Walk along the hillside, cross the bed of a dry torrent and then cross an area of scree.
(5) Continue south-east and then follow a few steep hairpin bends on a path through the grass to reach the pass. From the pass, there is no view of Lake Lovenex: follow a path on the left for a few metres to a small promontory above the lake. N.B. Do not continue east beyond the promontory: see practical information.
No signposts
(6) Begin the descent from the Pas de Lovenex via the same path as on the way up.
(5) Turn right onto a path that leads to the Chalets de Lovenex. Go around a rocky outcrop on the left. After crossing an area of scree, leave the path as soon as possible and head for the lake on the right (you can also follow the path to the chalets and then descend to the lake).
(7) Walk around the lake in an anti-clockwise direction. Then head towards the Chalets de Lovenex located above you, across the pastures.
Blue markings
(8) Go around the chalets on the right and follow a path westwards that winds its way up to the Col de la Croix.
(4) Head west down the path you took on the way up.
(3) At the signpost, do not continue on the most marked path that branches off to the right, but turn left to cross the dry river bed again.
Red and white + blue markings (+ a few yellow markers)
(3) Return to theGR®®5, turn right and follow the red and white markings and signposts to the starting point (S/E).
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