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Park in one of the car parks in Saint-Véran after paying the toll.
(S) Stay on the road to Saint-Véran, cross the village by turning left at the Reformed Church. Continue straight on, passing the church, and keep following the road until you reach the Grand Canal junction, marked by a yellow sign on a wall.
(1) Turn right onto this street, passing above the Bistrot d’en Ô. Turn left onto a wide track. Stay on this track, keeping left at the junction signposted Chapelle de Clausis. After a left-hand bend, join the Grand Canal track.
(2) Turn right onto it. It quickly turns into a very good path. Continue along this almost level path to reach thefirst hut, the Beauregard hut.
(3) Continue along the path to find asecond hut further on, the Labounnais hut, situated below the path, and, immediately afterwards, reach the junction with the track to the Pic de Château-Renard observatory.
(4) Cross the track and continue straight ahead on the path. Pass the old copper and marble mines, overlooking them, to reach, after a long walk along a balcony path, the junction withthe GR®58, Tour du Queyras.
(5) Leave theGR® and continue straight ahead along the path marked with yellow posts, crossing the Moutière mountain pasture. After crossing a small stream via a footbridge, you will reach the foot of a small cliff.
(6) Begin a short but steep climb, then follow an almost flat path to reach the Refuge de la Blanche above the lake of the same name.
(7) Continue downhill along the wide track. Reach the junction at the Clausis Chapel.
Turn right to go round the chapel. Descend along the path to rejoin the track at the Pont de Clausis crossroads.
(8) Here there are two options:
- turn right onto the track and follow it to the junction with the observatory track, where the car park for the shuttle bus to Saint-Véran is located (E),
- turn left onto theGR®58, marked in red and white, and begin a descent consisting of tight but very easy hairpin bends through the forest. Continue to the junction with the Chapelle Sainte-Élisabeth track.
(9) Leave theGR® here and turn right, crossing the Ruisseau de l’Aigue Blanche via the bridge. Follow a very gently ascending track past the chapel, rejoining the track and then the shuttle bus car park (E).
(E) Take the shuttle bus back to the village. Continue along the road to the crossroads by the Reformed Church. Follow the outward route back to the car park at (S).
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