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Car park in Saint-Hippolyte on the right-hand side of the road (D1b) leading to Haut-Koenigsbourg.
(S/E) Cross the road leading to Haut-Koenigsbourg with care and turn into Rue du Parc in front of the hotel of the same name. Follow the Red Ring sign. Walk past the hotel. At the first junction, turn right, leaving a dead-end street on your left. At the next junction, 50 m further on, at the end of the tarmac road, turn right following the Blue Disc sign, towards Schaentzel / Cave de Rodern, leaving the sign for Rodern and the Blue Saltire on your left. Then pass a path on your left leading between the vineyards and arrive at a junction with a tarmac road.
(1) Continue along the gravel road, following the Red Ring markings. Pass an uphill path on your right and continue along the tarmac road; 50 m after a second ‘Dos d’Âne’ sign, you’ll reach a junction with a forest track.
(2) Leave the road and turn right onto the uphill path. (Blue Ring, towards Rocher du Sanglier). You will come to a junction after the “remains” of a metal barrier. Leave the ascending path and head right (Blue Ring). About 100 m further on, leave the wide path for a track on the right towards Rocher du Sanglier (Blue Triangle) and arrive there.
(3) Near the sign “Rocher du Sanglier Alt 320 m”, continue along the narrow path to rejoin the wide path you left a few minutes earlier. Climb this path, passing a first descending path on your right, then a second halfway up the slope, and then a third (Blue Ring). After a steep climb, you’ll reach a place called Teufelsloch: a lovely view of Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle and the perfect spot for a short break.
(4) Turn left onto the wide, descending path, heading towards Roche des Fées / Ermitage and following the Blue Disc markings. Before a bend to the left, ignore a path leading off to the left downhill and continue up the main path, guided by the Blue Disc. You’ll reach a junction with the Muletier path; turn right onto the Muletier path towards Schaentzel (Blue Disc). Continue uphill, following the Blue Disc, ignoring two paths on the right. In the middle of a young fir forest, you’ll come to a junction.
(5) Don’t miss it. Let the Blue Disc-marked path go off to the right and take the path down to the left, towards Roche des Fées / Ermitage on the Red Ring-marked trail. Pass by the Roche des Fées. A sign reads: “According to legend, a Celtic sacrificial stone”. Continue downhill, cross a stream and start climbing again. Cut across a wide path and pass through the hamlet of Ermitage: remains of the Tombstone Chapel of a Hermit. Continue along the Red Ring marked trail until you meet a wide path coming from the right. Ignore the sign for Teufelsloch and head downhill towards Vallon des Moulins. You’ll reach a junction after a short descent.
(6) Turn left towards Vallon des Moulins / Saint Hippolyte (Red Ring). Ignore the paths branching off to the right and follow the Durrenbach stream, passing the remains of an old water filtration plant. Walk down the pretty valley until you reach a tarmac road. Take this road to the left, leaving the sign for Cave de Rodern on your right. After 50 m on this road, you’ll come to the junction with the path you took on the way out.
(2) Follow the path you took on the way there to return to the car park, guided by the Red Ring and Blue Disc, and reach the car park at Saint-Hippolyte on the right-hand side of the road (D1b) leading to Haut-Koenigsbourg (S/E).
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