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Departure from Chapelle des Pointières in the car park.
Correction: the chapel is on the left-hand side of the road leading up to the mountain, so the map needs to be corrected.
The route is marked in yellow and reinforced by signs saying "Sentier des Pointières"
(S). With your back to the chapel, take the tarmac road on the right and join the path that climbs to the left. Follow the path; signposts and markings will help you find your way.
Pass the first chalet on your right and, a few hundred metres further on, stop to visit the first museum of the 1950s, "ma stachon chu on stemin", the Musée du Roselais. At the end of the visit, return to the path and continue climbing.
(1) At the arboretum, continue along the path, which becomes steeper and more difficult.
When you come to a path, turn right and go up. After the right-hand bend, stop again in front of the second 1950s museum, go in and have a look around.
Continue along the same path, which will lead directly to Les Veuillettes. Opposite the Les Veuillettes chalet, turn left and stop at the orientation table (altitude 1,160 m).
Set off again and continue along the path that enters the woods a few hundred metres further on.
(2) When you reach the top of the path, turn left and then immediately right, climbing into the coniferous woods.
Cross the stream below the path and continue along the path. You are still in the woods. Continue for about 600 metres until you reach a crossroads.
(3) Immediately turn left down the path, follow it until the next one, which you should take on the left, and continue to Les Cruets, a group of small shelters on your right.
(4) Keep left to cross, 200 metres further on, the stream again. Follow the path to the hamlet of Les Grands François, which can only be seen from above. When you reach the fence, turn left and follow it.
(5) On the right, find the path going downhill, which is different from the one you started on, and which will take you back to the chapel.
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