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From Aix-les-Bains or exit 13 of the A41 motorway (Drumettaz-Clarafond), climb to Mouxy then to the hamlet of Les Mentens. Continue up the Route de Pertuiset until you reach a hairpin bend on the left, 500 m before the old Revard cable car station. Park in the bend, or better still, about ten metres above it (car park in the forest).
(S/E) Head south-east on the marked trail that climbs into the forest. You will reach a first crossroads.
(1) Turn left (return trail opposite) and climb steadily up the hairpin bends to the end of a forest track. Leave the track immediately and continue climbing until you reach a path on the left (coming from the Chapelle Saint-Victor) and a flat area equipped for picnics: the Table Ronde.
(2) Head right and climb up to a new, almost passable forest track coming from the left. Take it on the right and cross level towards the south until you reach the junction with the sign indicating 1060 m (it is actually closer to 1100 m).
(3) Take the path climbing up to the left, which winds left and then right, where you will see the cairn marking the start of the Pas de Rebollion.
(Please note that in some years, the cairn may have been destroyed!).
(4) Leave the path at the bend and climb up a steep slope marked with red lines, avoiding fallen trees. The barely visible path leads towards a fault line. The climb straight up the slope passes through four small rocky outcrops equipped with an old cable (the first is the most physically demanding), between which the path passes along a ledge on the left and, above all, under the natural arch associated with this pass.
After the fourth rocky outcrop with a cable (sometimes wetter), the slope levels out in the forest, allowing you to zigzag your way up to the Darèze meadow, which you must climb straight up to re-enter the forest and find the GRP® marked trail at the post named Rebollion.
(Please note that recent reports indicate that the historic cables on the climb have been removed, making this section significantly more difficult.)
(5) Take this path on the left, which goes around the 1,494 m summit and climbs back up to the Fermes crossroads, on the edge of the Route du Revard.
(6) Turn left off the road towards the north onto a track in the mountain pasture, which becomes a path. It runs alongside the road below, then descends through the forest into a small valley, which it climbs up on the right-hand side of the meadow to the summit, marked with orienteering markers (you may see a chasm a few metres to the right). Reach the summit of Le Revard.
(7) After enjoying the view from the summit, descend along the toboggan run to the south-east and turn left to join the path that descends a ski slope to its foot.
(8) Cross the road and climb up the GRP® marked trail opposite. It goes around the top of Villa des Rennes, returns to its access path to climb up to the left, goes around the Corniche hill and descends through the mountain pastures to the Fermes crossroads.
(6) Head west on the GR® trail, following the same route as on the way up, until you reach the Rebollion signpost.
(5) Follow the GR® trail to the left, heading south-east on the Pas du Pertuiset path towards the Col de Pertuiset.
(9) Turn right until you reach a bench.
(10) The bench and the left turn at the edge of the cliff mark the start of the descent. The path winds its way through a corridor between the cliffs and quickly loses altitude via a series of tight then wider hairpin bends. It crosses a long slope to the north-west, returning to the Pas de Rebollion crossroads you passed earlier.
(4) Follow the same route back to the 1060 m signpost.
(3) Turn left towards Verel-Pragondran and Le Malpasset to reach a crossroads where a remarkable pine tree stands.
(11) Leave the path on the left and turn right down the Matatant path, which quickly becomes steep, descends several earthy couloirs and a few rocky passages before rushing down the bed of a steep-sided torrent at the bottom of which there is a crossroads with a sign indicating 640 m (you are actually at 700 m).
Turn right and, on a gentler path, join the uphill path at the first crossroads.
(1) Take the opposite route back to the car park at (S/E).
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