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Park in the large car park below the Lamoura Tourist Office.
(S/E) Leave the car park and walk up the main street to the junction with the D304 at the top of the village.
(1) Just before the D304, turn right onto the Chemin du Bruchet, which climbs out of the village and into the forest.
(2) Once at the top of the climb, leave the forest track to the right at a right angle, heading into a gentle grassy hollow. The track is barely visible, if at all, at the start, but you’ll soon reach an old, well-marked forest track that quickly veers left towards the north-east. The route is then clearly marked with yellow lines. It is an unpaved track, not very well maintained, but very wide and easy to follow.
Follow this path in the same direction, keeping an eye on the yellow markings for about 1.8 km, until it turns left to climb a ridge and rejoin the main forest road you left earlier.
(3) Take this road on the right, which leads to a large holiday centre. Turn right along the centre’s car park and head down to the main road (D25). Follow the D25 to the left for 150 m until you reach the large car park at the Serra ski resort. Turn right and cross the car park diagonally to the foot of the ski lifts.
(4) Take the stony path that starts between two ski lifts, then veers left to climb along an open ski run through the forest. Pass a reservoir on your right, then the access path to a chalet on your left before reaching a footpath that heads into the forest on the left.
(5) Follow this path (clearly marked in yellow), which crosses the Route Forestière des Auvernes (which you followed on the way up), then continue to a cave on your right that can serve as shelter in bad weather. 300 m further on, you’ll reach Crêt Pela.
(6) Enjoy the view of the Swiss Alps from the bench at the viewpoint, situated slightly below the ridge. Descend to the forest track and turn immediately right (unmarked). Follow this pleasant path, along which you can admire a great many giant termite mounds. This path leads to a circular viewing platform on the ridge, from which three ski runs set off.
(7) Warning: the following section is not difficult, but requires some navigation skills.
Look for a barely visible track that descends through the undergrowth in a roughly southerly direction, before veering slightly to the right to head south-west. Initially running slightly south of the ridge line, it later follows a sort of gully between two hillocks to reach the ridge at the start of a ski run. Pass to the right of the small building and descend along the ridge on the ski run until you reach the start of a long descent.
(8) Turn right to descend this run to a good forest track, which you take on the left to reach the lake viewpoint.
(9) Leave the piste and head down to the right towards Lac de Lamoura (yellow markings). The path becomes a track, then a stony road. The road passes several chalets (the Thoramys) before taking a sharp right-hand bend.
(10) Leave the road and continue left across the pasture in the same south-westerly direction along a faint track that passes to the right of a chalet. The track becomes a path that continues through a sort of valley. About 1 km from the road you left, the path is about to enter the forest again.
(11) Leave the track to enjoy the ‘real’ view of Lac de Lamoura from the viewing platform situated slightly higher up on the right. Then take the path which descends quite steeply towards the lake. Walk round the lake anti-clockwise until you reach the car park.
(12) Cross the road and take the path opposite the car park entrance, which climbs behind the chalets (yellow markings). Follow it along the ridge between the two roads until you reach a tarmac road (D292), which you take to the right, until you join the D25, which takes you back to the starting point (S/E).
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Tourist office
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