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At Fournès, park on the side of the D112 on a grassy area opposite the wash house (space for 2 or 3 vehicles).
(S/E) Opposite the wash house, turn left, cross the departmental road to enter the hamlet and continue straight ahead until you reach a fork.
PR® Yellow signposts
(1) Take the hairpin bend to the right, then left onto a path that joins a wide track about a hundred metres further on. Cross the track and continue straight ahead. Leave the first track on your left, then the second (cross on the left) and you will come to a large crossroads.
(2) Go a few metres to the left then turn right (east) to continue climbing. The path leads to a first viewpoint (breathtaking panorama of the Pyrenees, from Canigou to Mont Vallier).
(3) Continue east and you will soon reach a second viewpoint, this time facing north-west. Continue to the menhir located in the hazel trees about 15 metres to the right of the path (green sign). Once at the edge of the woods, leave a path on your right and continue to a fork.
(4) Turn right and follow a wide grassy track that crosses a heathland and leads to the Roc du Nouret.
(5) Exceptional views of Canigou, the Corbières, the Ariège Pyrenees, Lauragais and Carcassonne. Return to the previous fork.
PR® signposting: yellow + yellow and green + yellow circle
(4) Turn right and, at a very close fork, go left (east). Further on, leave the path that branches off to the right and continue straight ahead for a few dozen metres until you reach another crossroads. Continue straight ahead.
(6) At the next fork (visible on the map when zoomed in), take the right-hand branch and continue to the next intersection.
(7) Turn left at a 90° angle, go straight ahead at the next intersection and start a steep climb. Leave a wide grassy path on your left, continue along the edge and, at the corner of the woods, turn left with the path.
(8) Immediately after, turn right. Cross the D87 and take the wide path opposite towards the Pic de Nore transmitter. Stop at the orientation table and enjoy the view. Continue on the left towards the second orientation table, and continue to the car park until you reach a no entry sign on the right at the end of the car park.
GR® White and Red markings
(9) Turn right onto theGR®36and cross the D87 twice.
(10) At the fork (visible on the map with a high zoom), take the right-hand branch to Roquo d'Astié (new viewpoint) and continue downhill to Pradelles-Cabardès.
(11) Just before a stream, leave a gravel path on your right. Cross the stream on a stone slab and follow the wide carriageway. Ignore the first path on your left, then the second on your right. Where the path becomes a tarmac road, turn left.
You will soon come to a small square. Turn left at the corner of the town hall and take several small steps to pass in front of the Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and come to a paved alley. Continue straight ahead until you reach the D112.
(12) Cross with caution, turn left and follow the road for about 100 metres. Turn right at the corner of a stone house and continue on a wide path that runs alongside the Ruisseau de l'Arnette on your left.
Just after crossing a bridge over the stream (which is very narrow at this point), a path on the left leads to the first ice house, which is overgrown and in poor condition but has retained two magnificent stone arches. The site is secured by a fence but caution is advised, especially with children.
Return to the path, turn left and walk about ten metres to reach a second ice house on the right, in the same state of repair as the previous one.... Continue to a crossroads a few metres before a tarmac road.
Markings:GR® White and Red + Yellow and Green
(13) Turn right and cross the stream. Ignore the first turn-off on the right, then the second, and continue to the next fork, where the path turns right.
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(14) Leave the path and take a less marked trail on the left (cement bushes at the start). Cross a stream and, at the fork that follows immediately, turn right and climb slightly. You will come out into a beautiful shaded area. Leave a small road on your left and continue straight ahead until you reach the D112. Follow this road on the left, then cross it and take the first path on the right.
Yellow and green markings
At the fork 50 m further on, turn right and continue to a T-junction (this path is not shown on the map).
(15) Turn right, then left at the next junction and start a steep climb that leads to another junction (there are lots of signs and hiking signs).
(16) Turn left and continue straight ahead along the balcony path, which alternates between forest and open terrain. Join a wide, stabilised track.
(17) After taking a look at the menhir located opposite, slightly to the left (disfigured by a fluorescent orange inscription that is completely out of place here), follow the track to the left. Come out onto a deforested area on the right, then turn right at a 90° angle at the corner of this area at the edge of the woods. Follow this path, which is sometimes cluttered (brambles and overgrown vegetation), which first turns right then left and begins a steep descent that leads to a crossroads (fence on the left).
(18) Turn right and continue downhill to join the D112. Turn right and follow the departmental road on the left-hand side of the road, taking the usual precautions (single file) as the grass verge is very narrow and sometimes difficult to walk on.
Return to the wash house and the starting point (S/E).
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