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The starting point is located at the park-and-ride car park, bus stop lines 25 and 26.
(S/E) Leaving the car park towards Vif, take the first street on the right (rue du bois du Gua) and continue until you see a private road sign.
(1) Look for a small path on the right that climbs up and joins the railway line.
(2) After about a hundred metres, following a short descent, you will reach the tarmac road. Take the path on the right. The climb is steep but not very long, and you will pass under the A51 motorway viaduct. The climb continues until you reach a flat section.
(3) Turn right. The path climbs a little further and overlooks the motorway and the Crozet toll station. You will come to a road which you follow until you cross the hamlet of Crozet and join the D1075 road.
(4) Cross it, descend about 50 metres to the right and follow the road to the left (Rue du Viaduc), passing under the second motorway viaduct and the railway viaduct (note the contrast between the two structures).
(5) Immediately after the railway viaduct, take a path on the left, which runs alongside the viaduct, climbing slightly.
Follow this path. After the motorway rainwater collection basins, it widens and becomes a good path (there is a new viaduct on the left). You will reach a circular bend in the district road (emergency lane and telephone relay). Turn slightly to the right, the path climbs up a grassy ridge overlooking the motorway and continues along the path. You will arrive at a tarmac road.
(6) Turn right, cross the small hamlet and follow the stone path that descends to the left (no entry sign). Descend until you cross the hamlet of Genevray, continue to the left and then straight ahead (restaurant). You will reach the departmental road again.
(7) Cross the river, La Gresse. You are now in the commune of Le Gua. Go through the roundabout and take the second road on the right.
(8) At the Champrond sign, the road climbs and crosses part of the village. Turn right twice, leave the village and continue along the road. When you reach the hamlet of Champrond (housing estates), continue straight ahead. The road descends slightly to join another road that climbs up from the right.
(9) Turn left at the hiking sign for Vif, climb until you reach a path that is almost flat. Follow it for a little over 2 kilometres until you reach a good path that descends to the right.
(10) Follow this path down to Route des Celliers, turn left and follow this road to a footbridge that crosses the river. Continue straight ahead, pass between the buildings, and take Rue Champollion on the left.
(11) See the hieroglyphics on the wall, then turn right 100 metres further on.
(12) Follow Rue du Portail Rouge, continue to the school and turn right. At the traffic lights, cross the road and return to the starting point (S/E).
For the start, we didn't set off from the private road, but took Rue du Bois du Gua for about thirty metres and then took the small path on the right that passes in front of a house, to avoid the steep, stony and unstable path. Otherwise, we have no complaints about this pleasant hike around Vif. Arriving at Saillants du Gua just after the bridge, we turned right to shorten the route a little, as night was beginning to fall. (Pleasant hike). 10.1 km in 3 hours 21 minutes, including a snack break.
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