Lacs de la Tempête via the Grande Maison

WARNING! A landslide is preventing access to the car park!
I wanted to take this route on 1 December 2024 with a station wagon. The road is rarely used, very narrow, and the car scraped the bottom several times. When I was 9 km from the car park, a landslide had blocked the road and I had to reverse several hundred metres before I could turn around and leave.
I lost a total of 1.5 hours.
It is no longer possible to take this route at present!

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Date of your route : Aug 24, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

Be careful, there is currently a very large herd on the climb up to the Col de la Louze. The sheep and a few goats came towards us on the climb, and it was impossible to avoid them. Four dogs, including a young Patou, were bringing up the rear. The smallest one was aggressive, but by remaining very calm, we managed to get past and they moved away (the shepherd in the distance said something to them that I didn't understand).
On the way back, they were occupying the entire valley, making it impossible to get around them to reach the car park. This time there were six dogs, five of them on the path, and no shepherd in sight. I passed within a metre of them, clenching my buttocks, but they didn't move. Perhaps they recognised my scent from our encounter that morning.
I was all the more worried because that morning in the car park, a hiker's dog had attacked three children, biting them until they bled through two layers of fabric. The poor children were screaming in fear.
Apart from that, it was a nice hike, even though the weather was cloudy. The section between the pass and the lakes is not very "rolling".

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Date of your route : Jul 24, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : Not used / Not applicable
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Hike completed on 12 July 2020.
A beautiful, fairly easy route. The climb up to the pass via Grande Maison is much less crowded than the route from St Guérin.
At the last lake, don't hesitate to climb along a stream on the left to reach the Besaces lakes.
The problem is accessing the Grande Maison car park... The forest road seems endless and is not necessarily suitable for vehicles with low ground clearance... There is also a ford to cross.

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Date of your route : Jul 05, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : Yes

As I have often noticed, there is not enough information about access at the start. In this case, it should be pointed out that the forest road is very long and in very poor condition on the last section. Some cars got stuck underneath, so it is advisable to stop before reaching the top, especially as the car park at the bottom was full, meaning you would have to drive back down a long way.

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Date of your route : Aug 29, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

A very beautiful hike. We parked in the car park at Lake Guérin by the dam. At the start, we followed the right bank and then crossed the footbridge. On the way back, we chose the left bank.
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Date of your route : Oct 27, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

Problem getting to the start of this hike.
Provide more details about the forest road (to avoid discouragement)
...which you take at the third bend (add "take the road on the left 'parking grande maison'")
Add "arrival at the large house car park at the end of the cul-de-sac, after 5 km of tarmac road and then 4 km of forest road.
(This avoids confusion as there are no signs on this long road).

The description of the hike is very good, and this walk is definitely worth the difficult access to the car park.

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Date of your route : Oct 12, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

A very beautiful hike. The drive there is quite long once you turn onto the forest road, but you quickly forget that once you're on the hiking trail, which is very pleasant and bucolic.

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