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Park in the Place de la Fête car park in Rustrel.
(S/E) Go up to the top of Place de la Fête and turn left onto Rue du Château. This road goes around the building and then leaves the village, heading north along a path. After 100 metres, you will reach the Gibas crossroads.
(1) Leave theGR® trail, which continues to the left, and take the path that climbs to the right towards Chemin des Quintins. When you reach the road, walk a few metres to the left, then leave the first path that branches off to the right towards Grande Combe to join a second path.
(2) Turn right onto this path which leads to Lagarde d'Apt and Beausses. Leave the paths on either side and continue climbing on the main path. After two successive bends, you will reach the Beausses sign (cistern no. 133), with views over the whole of the Luberon and the Apt basin.
(3) Leave the path on the right and continue climbing opposite, heading north, along a less steep path. Stay on the main path, ignoring all other paths, for about 1.5 kilometres until you reach a fork on a small plateau.
(4) Continue straight ahead on the marked path that goes around Grand Peymian to enter the remarkable Lagarde beech forest. At a ruin, a path coming from the left joins the marked path, which continues through the beech trees.
(5) About 500 metres higher up, at a fork, take the path on the left and continue on the main path for 1.5 kilometres, ignoring the other paths on either side. The path leads to the road at the Chemin des Quintins crossroads.
(6) Take the road on the right towards Grande Combe for 2 kilometres.
(7) At the fork, when a road branches off to the left towards Les Quintins, follow it for about 800 metres to the farm of the same name. Before the buildings, take the path on the right for a few metres.
(8) Turn right onto the path through the oak trees, opposite the sheepfold. Still among the oak trees, cross the flat ground before descending into the Vallon de Touras, ignoring the paths branching off to the right and left. You will reach the Grande Combe crossroads.
(9) Turn right towards Les Charbonniers via the old cart track (retaining wall).
(10) At a left-hand bend, leave the path opposite which indicates Rustrel 2.2km and continue left towards Rustrel 1.5km. It descends, runs along the mountainside, then descends steeply to approach the bottom of the valley. Pass by the old command post of the strategic missile group and arrive at the Les Charbonniers crossroads.
(11) Turn left onto the road, then immediately right and left between the cemetery and the swimming pool. Continue along Rue de l'Église and at a fork (oratory and well), turn right to join the D30. Follow it to the right to reach Place de la Fête and the car park (S/E).
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