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Park in the car park on Place du 8 Mai 1945, to the left of the large roundabout when arriving from Chavanay via the RD7.
S/E:: Head towards the roundabout and go around it on the right until you reach the3rd street (Rue du Stade).
Take this slightly uphill street to the public garden, which you cross to rejoin the street a little further on.
(1) Leave the stadium and swimming pool on your right and take Rue du Roule on your left. Walk up this street to the last houses and the crossroads.
(2) Leave the road and take the path opposite (old railway line). Follow the signs for "Pelussin 3" (white and yellow markings) until you reach the RD7, which you will find at a traffic island with a new information sign about the Tacot.
(3) Cross the road carefully and continue along the path that starts a little higher up at an angle. This path, which is enclosed by forest, may be muddy due to a spring. Continue through the woods until you reach the RD62.
(4) Cross and take the path that leads into the woods opposite. Pass the ruins of a burnt-down school on your right to come out higher up on the Montée de l'Eau qui Bruit with a large building on your right and a house on your left. A sloping path leads into the forest opposite. Follow it until you reach the junction with a forest track coming from the right.
(5) Continue straight ahead. The path continues to climb to the highest point of the hike.
(6) Shortly afterwards, at the crossroads, take the forest track that veers slightly left downhill. Leave it at the bend to take a path on the right and continue straight ahead to reach the outskirts of the hamlet of Priel.
(7) Go up to the right in a hairpin bend and then immediately to the left; the path crosses the hamlet and descends to the Col de l'Œillon road at a wash house. Follow this road to the right for about 50 metres.
(8) Turn left onto the path that passes to the right of the farm. 200 metres further on, it fords the Ruisseau de la Scie stream and continues downhill. Pass a house on the left (Corbery) before arriving at the Ruisseau de Malatras stream.
(9) Cross the stream. The path climbs slightly on the right bank to reach a first road, which you cross before joining the Route des Brondelles further up. Follow it to the right for about 100 metres.
(10) Turn right at the houses. Continue along the path which descends towards the Ruisseau du Régrillon stream, then bends left to climb back up towards the hamlet of La Boucharie. You will come to a road which you follow to the right, keeping left at the fork just after.
(11) Head diagonally left along a path that climbs slightly into the Bois de la Valette forest until you reach a crossroads.
(12) Turn left; the path descends into the forest, running alongside a huge mossy dry stone wall for over 500 m. The outskirts of Pelussin come into view, and the path turns into a road before joining the road from Maclas.
(13) Cross the road to find a path between fields and gardens, which you follow for 150 metres before turning left. You will then find yourself on the old railway line. Continue to the public garden and playground. Cross the first curved viaduct.
(14) Cross the second viaduct and you will come out onto Rue de Verdun. Continue straight ahead until you reach Rue Antoine Eyraud (there is a small car park opposite with a school behind it).
(15) Turn left for about 40 metres (pharmacy on the left) and turn right at the crossroads with Rue de l'Ancienne Poste. Walk alongside the school, then turn right again to return to the car park where you started (S/E).
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