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Park in the car park at the southern exit of Les Salelles.
(S/E) Enter the hamlet heading north-east until you reach the cemetery.
(1) Turn right onto the wide path that climbs uphill (white/yellow markings), then becomes a trail. Continue straight ahead uphill until you reach a wider path coming from the left.
(2) Continue straight ahead on this path, still marked white/yellow. You will reach a crossroads with a "Les Mourades" hiking signpost. Take the main path on the right.
(3) Follow this path (forest track). There is another less frequented path, but the owner no longer wishes it to be used.
After a long straight stretch (or almost!), the track curves to the right. At the curve, take the path that branches off to the left and descends. Follow the Ruisseau de Gauthier stream, then climb back up and rejoin the track. The track immediately makes a hairpin bend to the left, then another to the right. At this point, ignore all other paths. Continue along the track until it forms a north/south bend. Ignore the path that branches off in the bend. Stay on the main track and head south, ignoring the path on the right that climbs up to the television relay station. The track climbs up and passes under the relay station. At the crossroads (DFCI sign), there is a magnificent viewpoint. (You can picnic a few dozen metres to the right, staying on the main path. After your picnic, return to the sign).
(4) Immediately turn left at a right angle onto the path that descends (unmarked). Find a pink marker on the ground further on, join the track below and continue, keeping to the left until you reach the small pass, where you will find the "Les Hermessenes" hiking signpost.
(5) Take the path on the left towards Leouze. Stay on this path and continue straight ahead. The path curves around the Maubert stream and heads west. After a sharp right turn, pass a low stone wall forming a 40-metre-long rectangle. Look out for the view of the abandoned hamlet of Pallières on your left, and shortly afterwards you will find a path on the left that appears to turn back but actually leads to the hamlet.
(6) For a round trip: turn left and walk to the abandoned village of Pallières, visit it (watch out for falling stones). Return to the previous path. Find the hiking signpost (without a name). Take the leftmost track towards "Les Salelles" (a ruin on the left of the path at 130m). Continue along this track and, at the next intersection, turn left at the bend.
Continue along the ridge, heading north-west then north. The path turns west (there are numerous hunting hides), take the track on the hillside above the Ruisseau de Pallières. Keep left and descend through the meadows onto the small road just before the hamlet of Reboul.
(7) After the houses, turn left in front of the farm building and join the D558. Cross it, descend opposite onto the stream bed and cross it. Follow the Ibie until you find a path on the left at the southern exit of Les Salelles, otherwise go to the submersible bridge. Go up to the left towards the village and your car. If there is too much water, go up (after swimming) on the road that you follow to Les Salelles and the car park (S/E).
very pleasant walk, beautiful wild woods, but a long descent on a forest track lasting more than 15 minutes in the sun and very stony, as is often the case in Coiron
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