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In Carry-le-Rouet, park in one of the marked spaces on Rue des Écoles, which is a one-way street.
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(S/E) Return to the crossroads and turn right to take the tunnel under the railway line. As soon as you exit, turn left onto a path that is partially blocked by a chain. Walk along the railway line at a distance and you will come to a junction that is difficult to spot on the ground, although it is marked by a small cairn.
(1) Turn left to immediately join another path, which you follow by turning right. Ignore a path on the right and, at the junction with a wider white path, turn right towards the dual carriageway to reach a new crossroads. Turn left towards the houses, walk alongside them and reach the end of a tarmac road.
Continue straight ahead and slightly to the right, using the green fence of a property as a landmark. Go up a short steep slope, cross a small turning area and continue westwards to reach the hollow of a small north-south facing valley.
(2) Turn right towards the four-lane road to reach its edge and walk along it, ignoring the tunnel that passes underneath. You will come to an intersection with a path coming from the left.
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(3) Continue straight ahead until you reach a crossroads with a "Private Property" sign and turn right to pass under the four-lane road. Climb up a small valley to a fork marked by a cairn.
(4) Turn left towards a small pine grove and follow the narrow, rocky valley leading to a large crossroads with a signpost (old rusty cistern a little further on the right).
(5) Turn right onto the wide track (Chemin de Valprête on the map) following the sign for "Boucle Côte Bleue - 63 km". Continue to a new crossroads located directly below a high-voltage power line. Ignore the track on the right and continue straight ahead. The view is unobstructed and offers a magnificent panorama of Marseille.
(6) Turn right at a hunters' car park marked by a wooden sign in rather poor condition. Walk past the memorial to a hunter and continue to an electricity pylon.
Ignore the most obvious path, which continues straight ahead, and turn left. Pass between two pine trees and begin a descent, at the bottom of which (cultivated plot on the left), you must continue straight ahead uphill.
Then descend into a small valley planted with pine trees. Ignore the various paths on the right and continue along the imposing ruins of an old fortified house before coming out onto a grassy area used as a car park. Continue straight ahead on the track and you will come to a crossroads with a signpost.
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Continue to the right, cross a forest barrier further on and reach a crossroads with a signpost.
(7) Ignore the two crossroads and turn right onto a path heading south-west then south, which leads to another path in a small valley.
(8) Turn left, following the sign for "Carry-le-Rouet - Centre ville". At the next crossroads, continue straight ahead on a narrow path that winds its way through a wild and narrow valley.
(9) Look for the rather old double yellow and blue cross on the ground and turn right a few metres along a path that is not very obvious at first and which begins a fairly steep climb to reach a much wider path. Turn left. At the next junction, turn right towards the easily identifiable orientation table. Walk to the table.
(10) After enjoying the exceptional view, continue along the path, which winds its way further on before coming to a crossroads with a signpost. Turn left, approach the dual carriageway and follow it, veering to the right to join the Chemin de Jas Vieux at an old quarry.
(11) Turn left, pass under the dual carriageway and, at the start of the tarmac road, take the small path on the right (not always easy to spot depending on the vegetation) which runs alongside it and then veers off to the right.
(1) Turn left. Once back on the tarmac, turn right to go through the tunnel under the railway line, then immediately turn left into Rue des Écoles to return to the car park (S/E).
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