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(S) Departure from the village of Vanosc near Espace Besset, on the left as you leave the village towards Burdignes.
(1) Follow the road uphill for 20 metres to reach the red and whiteGR®42signposts, which are easy to follow uphill to La Cartara. No advice is needed for the crossroads: just follow the red and white signposts.
Pass to the left of the Fortunères houses, to the left of the Moulin Laure and its paved path, along the houses of Le Bouchet.
(2) Leave the horse trail on your right. You will arrive at a meadow opposite the De La Cartara house, then join the road.
(3) Here there is a junction with many roads and paths.
Turn left, uphill, onto the first path marked Marron Blanc on the right of the uphill road. Cross a beech forest via a stony path, pass along the edge of a meadow, then go around the water tanks on the right.
Join a forest track and follow it to the right.
Pass a meadow and the Diable ruins on your right and continue straight ahead. Follow the forest track, which runs alongside a meadow on your left and a forest on your right. Enter the pine forest, which climbs slightly, then descends and levels out before climbing again. At the end of the track, leave it and take a path on your left.
(4) Follow the well-marked path uphill, which leads above the houses of La Faye on the left.
(5) You will arrive at a paved road. Follow it until you reach the buildings on the right of "Maison dans la Nature".
Turn left onto a road that descends slightly to the right with parking spaces marked on the ground.
Then, at the start of the left-hand bend, turn right onto the well-marked path.
Go through the forest, then across a small meadow on the right and quickly take the first path downhill on the left.
(6) Follow the well-marked path, which has no equivalent on the right or left and is very stony in places. The path starts off almost straight, then curves sharply to the left, followed by another curve to the right.
Cross another path, ignore the path that cuts across and continue downhill below the edge of a meadow.
Cross a road and head straight ahead, quickly turning right and then left at right angles.
Go down this sometimes stony path, ignoring a few paths leading off to the left.
Walk along a large trench and then, at the end, turn right.
Follow the edge of a steep meadow on your left to reach a bend in the road.
(7) Take the road downhill on the left, which runs alongside the houses of Récusson on the right. The road then turns right (very beautiful views here) and continues into a small wood.
Ignore the very steep left-hand bend in the road and head straight ahead onto a grassy path.
(8). Facing a gate, follow the small, well-marked and steeply sloping path to the left.
Without looking, head towards the village of Vanosc, sometimes keeping a stone wall on your left, to reach an area of old stone quarries, which you will go around on the right.
The path turns right and becomes a wider track, reaching a water tank on the left and the tarmac streets of the village.
Continue left, passing the cemetery and then a chapel on your right. Follow the road downhill, passing a square on your right, a road on your right and a road on your left.
Before reaching the church square, take the flat street on the left and follow the red and whiteGR®42markings back to the starting point.
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