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The route starts from the car park below the restaurant "Chez Mamac". To get there, shortly after the La Cure customs post in the direction of Saint-Cergue, take the road that climbs up to the left (Chemin de l'Avant-Poste). You can also park in the station car park and walk to the same road.
(S/E) Head east and pass the restaurant.
(1) After about 150 m, turn right to enter the mountain pasture. At the crossroads (elevation 1205, building on the left), continue straight ahead. Climb gradually and keep heading north-east until you reach a fork at elevation 1270.
(2) Turn left towards Le Noirmont. The climb is quite steep at first.
(3) Join the green ski slope of Le Noirmont, follow it to the right and uphill. The path is wide but quite steep at times. Reach an old, well-preserved border marker (we are still in Switzerland; vast panorama).
(4) Continue east then north-east and, via a winding path, reach the summit of Le Noirmont (cross; very extensive panorama).
(5) Descend on the other side, towards Creux du Croue (north then north-northeast). Pass through Noirmont des Français (a little lower than the original) and walk along the cliff of Creux du Croue, a pretty cirque occupied by a peat bog and an alpine chalet. After a long walk, you will reach a fork in the path.
(6) Turn right and, at the immediate crossroads, turn left (north-northeast). Climb up the hillside along the pretty path towards the Croue mountain farm.
(7) At the fork, turn left towards the Croue mountain farm, visible at the top of a short climb. Pass the chalet and you will reach an information board.
(8) Then turn left towards Mont Sâla. Walk north-east and you will reach a reservoir in the Cimetière aux Bourguignons area (a reminder of a French defeat in 1476; the cross that marked the site seems to have disappeared).
(9) Continue along the path heading north and then east.
(10) At the Chalet des Électriciens, turn right towards Mont Sâla. Quickly climb to the summit, which offers extensive views of the Alps, including the Mont Blanc massif and Lake Geneva.
(11) Retrace your steps to the Croue mountain chalet and then the fork below.
(7) Turn left into the Combe aux Tassons towards the Arzière chalet (south-south-west).
(12) At the chalet, turn right onto the path towards La Cure/Les Coppettes.
(13) At the Coppettes chalet, continue downhill towards La Cure. You will reach the intersection you took at the start of the hike.
(2) Continue straight ahead and, following the same path in reverse, return to the car park where you started (S/E).
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