The Siou Blanc Massif

Date of your route : May 20, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A pleasant hike that took less time than expected... 4 hours max, including lunch break.
Shady

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Date of your route : Feb 08, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

An easy walk, but no beautiful views and limited interest; the only nice sight was the elephant.
The signposting is sometimes poor, so it's a good thing we had maps
for walkers only!!!!

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Date of your route : Oct 18, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Ease of following the route : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

The map is unreliable.
Especially at crossroads.
As a result, we rely on intuition to find our way.

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Date of your route : Mar 08, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

A beautiful hike, the Maramoye chasm is definitely worth a visit. A few more waypoints would have been welcome.

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Something to think about, something to do when the hunting season is over!

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Hello,

However, there are landmarks, but no directions are given.

Can you make some suggestions?

See you soon.

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Date of your route : Apr 29, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★☆☆☆☆ Very disappointing
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

Beautiful route, but parish specific to Brittany, very poorly described (no GPS) with all the tracks there are, poorly signposted even though there are landmarks, no directions mentioned
but the hike itself is beautiful. It's been a few years since I last came to Siou Blanc. What a wonderful discovery, the elephant!

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Date of your route : Apr 22, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

Being a "local", I had no trouble following the route, relying more on geography and the map. I had a wonderful day on these trails, filled with memories. Thank you to Visorando for making this possible.

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Date of your route : Nov 19, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average

Average interest because the entire walk takes place in the forest. 4½ hours with no visibility or views makes it a bit long.

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Date of your route : May 14, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

A landscape always waiting to be rediscovered, where vegetation conceals and blends with the rock. One disappointment:
the Maramoye chasm is now enclosed by wire fencing and impossible to approach (it wasn't like that three years ago).

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Thank you, Martabel.
I think the author now has enough information to possibly update his hike.
Let's wait for them to review it.

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The departure car park is now easy to find, as the General Council has installed signs at each car park.
When you are on the main road, you can easily recognise the Guillerets car park with its house and picnic tables. The Abîme des Morts car park is the next one.
In the first section, follow the blue markings. One kilometre from the start (coordinate 579 on your map), follow the blue markings to the right. The Poirier well is on your left, behind the bushes, opposite a stone wall.
At elevation 480, leave the blue markings.
When you reach the first cistern, take the carriage road to a second cistern on a large plateau on the left. There, leave the carriage road. Take the hill to the right of the cistern and you will find the path that leads to the Maramouye Abyss, protected by a fence.
You will then reach a large, recently constructed carriage road.

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Thank you, Martabel.
Often, descriptions alone are not enough; it is essential to know how to interpret the map attached to the description. Which is what you seem to have done.
I think what would interest the author is if you could make suggestions for adapting their description, indicating precisely what they should include. I'm not talking about the markings, which we don't know much about, but rather the physical landmarks on the ground.

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Date of your route : Jan 05, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average

Without the IGN map, we would not have found our way, and if we had not met someone from the area, we would have passed right by the Maramoye abyss without finding it! New markings have been added, paths have been turned into roads, a new cistern has been installed...The description really needs to be redone!
We were also disappointed by the stone elephant, which needs to be cleared around so that it can be seen better....

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Date of your route : Dec 04, 2017
Reliability of the description : Not used / Not applicable
Ease of following the route : Not used / Not applicable
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

Unused route: we did the walk starting from Signes and returning to the starting point in reverse; without GPS and with lots of hunters' drovers' roads and firebreaks, there is a lack of signage: ignore the "siou blanc et stèle" road signs and continue to the crossroads at the stele, which is another 4 km by car...

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