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Parking is available at the roadside in the hamlet of Les Chazes.
(S/E) Head north-east along the road between the cross and the well. The start is marked in white and yellow. After the first houses, leave the road and take a track slanting off to the right. Join a tarmac road and leave a road on your right.
(1) Leave the road and the markings and turn left onto Chemin des Petits Cailloux. After 150 m, the path turns right at a right angle (not marked on the IGN map), leave another path on the left and continue straight ahead on a path going up the hill.
(2) At the top of the hill, turn right and walk along a meadow with a small pond on your left. At the three-way junction just after, turn right again. Continue to a wider path, again marked in white and yellow, which you take to the left. Note the karstic cave de la Baume du Bois on the left of the path. Be careful, as it is a deep hole with no barrier. Shortly after the karstic cave, you will come to a four-way crossroads. Turn right towards Lavilledieu. Continue to follow the markings for about 600 m.
(3) At a T-junction, leave the markings that go to the right and take the path on the left. You will arrive at the edge of the woods on a clear space where you will find a wide track. Take this track on the right. After a bend to the left, you will reach a dirt road.
(4) Turn right heading north for about 200 m, then leave the road and take a path on the left going up the hill. At the top of the hill, turn left onto the path and continue on a wide track following the ridge in a south-westerly direction.
(5) When the track ends at a small wall, do not be tempted to take the path down the eastern slope. Instead, take a less visible track slightly to the right that follows the ridge. Pass near a corner of the wall. You will arrive at the end of the hill, on a flat area where the vegetation is a little sparser, just in line with a path climbing the hill on the other side of the Vallon de Fontenouille. Descend the western side, trying to find the best route (there isn't really a path). A little further down, veer left to cross a small wall and arrive on a wide path at the bottom of the slope.
(6) Take this path to the left. At the next junction, turn right and descend towards the bottom of the valley.
(7) Just before crossing the Ruisseau de Fontenouille (always dry), leave the path and take a trail on the left between two dry stone walls, the remains of an older, wider path. When the trail becomes impassable due to trees growing in the middle, go around the bottom of the valley by crossing the wall on the right. At the confluence with another valley on the left, climb diagonally up the left bank to join a path that you take to the right.
(8) Before crossing the stream, take a path on the left (not shown on the IGN map) that goes into the woods, following the left bank. Continue to a T-junction and turn right.
(9) Turn left onto the Traverse de Saint-Cerice. Turn left at the next junction. This joins a white and yellow marked route, which you follow to the finish. Turn left at the first junction. At the next junction, turn left and then immediately right. Once again, the IGN map is a little misleading, so follow the markings carefully. Then descend via the Sentier des Gras, which leads back to the hamlet of Les Chazes (S/E).
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