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By car: from Aïnhoa, follow the D20 towards Dantxaria.
About 1 km before you get there, turn left onto the small road leading to Venta Pantxo (signposted). Drive past the quarries, then reach the Venta and park in the car park.
On foot:
(S/E) Return to the road and take it to the right, passing through a cattle grid. The road runs alongside the Lapitxuli river; follow it until you reach a footbridge.
(1) Cross the river on this iron footbridge and take the path that climbs to the right.
After about 100 metres, take a small path on the left that also climbs (yellow markings).
Pass in front of a shed, come out onto a road and go up to the right.
(2) Quickly, before reaching the farms, take a path on the left that climbs uphill. Follow the yellow markings. At the top of a hill, at a three-way junction, keep right (yellow markings) and you will come to a track.
(3) Cross and continue straight ahead to climb up to the ridge. This ridge line goes up and down but quickly gains height. When you reach the final summit of Gorospil, go around it on the right.
(4) On the other side of the summit, take a path on the left (north-east) that descends slightly along the hillside, offering magnificent views of the Basque and Landes coastlines.
Pass to the right of a pretty barn, where the path becomes a wide track that you should follow for about 500 metres.
You will arrive at a large crossroads at the Zuharretako Lepoa pass.
(5) Follow the yellow sign for Circuit de la Montagne and descend the track on the left.
Pass by a barn. Reach a hollow, just before the palombières (pidgeon hunting huts), where you will find another crossroads. Turn left towards a very welcoming barn (see Practical Information).
(6) Return to the track via the path that climbs behind the barn, running alongside the enclosures. Follow it to the left. You will come to another major crossroads.
(7) About twenty metres before, take the path that descends to the left and then continues horizontally.
at the three-way junction (marked Xarahandikoborda on the map), ignore the path that descends to the left and take the path on the right, which is rocky at first.
(9) At the next crossroads, keep right on the path along the hillside, which soon begins to climb. You will reach the Col des Trois Croix.
(10) Descend via the left-hand track (yellow markings) which passes below a pidgeon hunting hut. The slope becomes steeper and joins a track suitable for vehicles; take this track to the right.
Pass in front of a sheepfold. The tarmac road continues to a crossroads: take the road opposite towards the buildings.
(11) Just after the shed and before the farm, turn right onto a path that soon overlooks the Dantxaria quarries. Ignore the path on the right that leads down to them.
The track climbs for a moment then descends quite steeply to the right into the forest.
Reach a flat area and take the old pidgeon hunting hut path opposite (old wooden ladder on the left) which descends to the car park (S/E).
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