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From Sare, follow the signs for the Grottes de Sare. Park just before the caves, in the small car park on the right.
(S/E) Go through a gate and take the stairway on the right, marked with red and blue Venta Loretxoa signs. The start of the stairway is quite steep. At the end of the steps, it becomes less steep. When you reach a wooden barrier, turn right onto a stony path.
(1) Turn left and continue climbing. Ignore a path on your right and take the next one on your left.
(2) Turn left and join a track. Turn right and follow it to the next junction.
(3) Leave the yellow markings and continue straight ahead on a slight downhill slope. Turn right, then left. The path passes to the left of the Venta Loretxoa. A few metres from the path, it is worth stopping to admire the bucolic setting.
(4) Just above the signposts, take the path on the left that passes in front of a renovated barn. Continue climbing and you will come to a fork on the right. Continue straight ahead until you reach another fork on the right, on a grassy plateau.
(5) Follow the path opposite which, after a section along the contour line, climbs up to the left to join a fork just before the unnamed pass on the Atxuria ridge.
(6) Turn completely to the right. The path descends steeply to a fork with some large oak trees.
Turn left onto this path and descend to the Ibaineta Pass near a larch forest.
(7) Leave the well-marked paths on the left and right and follow a grassy path that goes straight ahead, skirting the larch trees on the right. Pass through a slightly marshy area. The path passes two fences with passages to cross them. Just after the second one, turn left. Reach an enclosure, go around it on the right and reach the Urbia Pass.
(8) Take the road on the left and head towards Zugarramurdi.
(9) Go back and take the road that leads to the cemetery until you reach the next junction.
(10) Follow the road that branches off to the right until you reach the next sharp bend.
(11) Take the road on the right. Further on, leave a road on your right and continue on the left. You will come to a small meadow.
(12) Follow the paved path that descends to the right towards the rock face and joins the Venta Halty.
(13) Do not go towards the venta but take a path that branches off to the left. An interesting feature along the way is a hole on the left, from which cool air flows from the depths of the earth. Very pleasant in hot weather. The path leads to a road and immediately turns off again. Follow it on the left-hand side until you reach the entrance to the quarry. Continue to the small car park at the Sarre Caves (S/E).
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