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Access: from Les Estables, follow signs for Mont Mézenc, D631. Park in the Croix de Boutières car park (thatched cottage-inn-lodge, information signs for "Cirque des Boutières").
(S/E) Head north, following the signs for "Sommet du Mézenc" and passing just to the left of the gate topped with a marmot and the cottage. Follow the well-marked path through the woods. Exit the fir forest higher up, then arrive at a signpost.
(1) Turn right towards the Mézenc peaks. At the next signpost, turn right towards "Sommet 1753 m, tables d'orientations" (Summit 1753 m, orientation tables).
(2) Further on, keep to the right towards "Table d'orientation, sommet 1753 m" (orientation table, summit 1753 m). At this orientation table, head left towards a weather marker and, when you reach it, look for another orientation table straight ahead, slightly below. Once you reach it, turn left towards the other summit topped with a cross (1744 m). Return to the intersection you passed on the way there.
(2) Continue straight ahead for a round trip to the Croix du Mézenc. Stay on the marked trail.
(2) On your return from the Croix du Mézenc, retrace your steps along the route you took on the way up to the previous signpost.
(1) Continue straight ahead towards Croix de Peccata, following a well-marked path (under construction in July 2022). At the intersection, continue straight ahead on a gravel path and join the road at Croix de Peccata.
(3) Cross the road and immediately turn right onto a grassy path parallel to the road and marked by theGRP®® Tour du Massif du Mézenc (yellow and red). At Roche Pointue, continue along the road for about 200 metres.
(4) Leave the road and take a path on the right, following the red and whiteGR®® markings. The path becomes a trail and goes around the Grosse Roche on the right. Follow theGR®® markings, keeping left at three intersections.
(5) At this intersection, marked with a D, ignore thePR®® Yellow andGRP®® marked trail on the right and continue straight ahead on a section now markedGR®®,GRP®® andPR®® Yellow (some of these markings are more obvious than others depending on the location). Shortly afterwards, at another marker marked with a D, follow theGR®® markings to the left. About 100 m further on, bear right, following theGRP®® markings, then, throughout this section in the undergrowth, follow the most obvious path, referring to the Yellow,GR®® orGRP®® markings at intersections (sometimes with more or less temporary paths traced by forestry machinery).
(6) At the information panel mounted on a mini-terrace overlooking a bog, continue following the same markings. Further on, pass another small bog (information panel). Continue following the same markings. You will come to an intersection with a white and green barrier (open). TheGR®® continues to the left and theGRP®® andPR®® to the right.
(7) Go straight ahead on a path that climbs up through a pasture, after opening and then closing an electric fence. Continue along the edge of the fence on your left for a round trip to the Ventographe des Boutières.
(8) Retrace your steps to the previous intersection.
(7) Follow theGRP®® andPR®® yellow markings on the left. In front of the access road to the Médille lodge, turn left, still following theGRP®® and yellow markings. Join a road at the Col de Médille.
(9) Follow this quiet road to the right (GRP®,GR® and yellow markings).
(10) At a signpost, leave the road and take a path on the right, following the direction "Croix de Boutières" (GR®® andPR®® Yellow markings). Join a road, follow it to the right, shortly before reaching the Croix de Boutières car park (S/E).
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