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Park in the car park at Lacombe Town Hall.
(S/E) From the car park, turn left and then left again towards Saint-Denis.
(1) Take the pedestrian access on the right towards La Prise d'Alzeau via Rue de la Rivière. Continue past the last house along a path that joins a track. Go around a restaurant on the left and cross the wooden footbridge to discover the site of La Prise d'Alzeau and the memorial stele in honour of P.P. Riquet.
(2) Retrace your steps back to the Audois side. Walk up the left bank of the stream to the hamlet of La Galaube. Join the Route d'Arfons at an old mill that has been converted into a house. Walk a few dozen metres along the D53.
(3) Turn right onto the ramp, which is not open to vehicles, and which leads to the dam embankment. Walk along the left bank of the lake for a while, following the indentations created by the spillways of the streams that feed it. (There is a shortcut if you take the path before crossing the Fraissègne stream). After going around the arm of the Ruisseau de Fraissègne spillway, go up to a crossroads with three tracks.
(4) Take the right-hand track, which passes under the first wind turbines in the Bois de la Serre. Turn right after thesecond pylon and descend to the Fraissègne stream. Cross it via a concrete bridge and you will arrive at a crossroads. Turn right and, after a fork to the right (where the shortcut ends), look for a path on the left.
(5) Start climbing this sunken path through the woods towards the south-east for 500 metres and you will come out on the D203 near the Col du Fangas Haut (elevation 817).
(6) At the crossroads, cross the road and take the wide path on the left. After 20 metres, turn right onto a discreet path that overlooks the road. After a bend, rejoin the road at another hairpin bend.
(7) Cross it again and head right below. Follow the blue markings on the trees, which indicate an underground pipe. Cross afirst stream and climb up into the national forest. Pass a crossroads at Lacal (markings 10 and 13 between two trees), then turn west and head for a junction.
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(8) To stay under cover, follow a path maintained by hunters (line of posts) opposite. Cross the Bois du Bombadou forest towards the south before turning west. Pass by an old spring captured in a basin and come out onto the Piste du Fangas at Rec des Agnels.
(9) Follow it to the left towards the south. Pass a water reservoir and a GSM relay before coming out at the junction with the Route de Lacombe (cross).
(10) Turn right onto the road and descend to the village. The car park opposite the town hall marks the end of the route (S/E).
A treat in this hot weather!
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