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To reach the start, coming from Aubenas, after the Balazuc junction, the car park in a former bend is on the left of the D104, just after the large viaduct. To avoid crossing the road, you can turn right onto the road leading to the hamlet of Les Louanes and return in the correct direction.
(S/E) Leave the car park by following the white-and-yellow marked path northwards. Cross the stream. At the ‘Viaduc’ sign, turn right and continue to the Serre Bouchet sign.
(1) Head down the path on the right, cross the stream and climb up to Serre Bouchet. Continue following the white-and-yellow markings. The paths to the right and left shown on the IGN map are not visible. However, at a ruin currently being restored, leave a wide, unmarked path on your right. You will reach the Serre de Rimbaud sign.
(2) Turn right and follow the ridge path to the Serre Juillet sign.
(3) Pass the path on the right leading down to Pradons and take the path on the left. Reach the highest point.
(4) Temporarily leave the white-and-yellow markings and turn left, ignoring the Yellow Cross. At the first junction, turn right to rejoin the marked path and continue to the left. This short detour offers a better view and avoids a stony descent. You will reach a hairpin bend.
(5) Leave the marked path which descends to the left and continue straight on along the ridge on a wide track that gradually becomes a footpath.
Pass under an electric fence, follow an old rusty fence and descend until you reach a path marked White-Yellow again in the hollow at a small pass.
(6) Turn right onto it and cross the first stream. Before the second stream, follow the markings closely as they make a first turn left then right (elevation 190m). Pass the Le Planas hiking sign and continue along the tarmac road towards Pradons. Reach a crossroads just before the Les Blaches sign.
(7) Leave the signposted route and take a path that branches off to the right a little way back. Cross the stream and come to a path; take it to the right. You’ll reach a three-way junction with three paths.
(8) Take the path furthest to the left, ignoring the cross; the rest of the route is unmarked.
After crossing a stream (channelled by culverts), ignore the wide paths to the right and left and continue straight on along a track that becomes a path and leads to another stream.
(9) Walk down alongside this stream for about twenty metres, then cross it over rock slabs. Take the path furthest to the right (hard to see at first) which climbs up a small tributary ravine. At the top of the climb, you’ll reach a wider path.
Ignore a path leading down to the left, cross a stream and reach a hairpin bend to the right.
(10) Go straight on, leaving the main path on your right. Pass by a ruin. In the next section, several parallel tracks may cause some confusion. The main path follows the ridge very closely and runs parallel to a fence on the left.
(11) At the edge of an olive grove on the left, turn right onto a clearly visible path. Descend to a stream, then turn left to continue down, following the left bank.
(12) At a three-way junction by a waterfall, take the small path on the right. Continue to a wider path, follow it down to the stream.
(13) Turn left to cross it. Continue along the path (not shown on the IGN map) to the bridge over the Voie Verte. Cross the bridge and turn immediately left to head back down to the Voie Verte, which you take on the left as you pass under the bridge again.
(14) After crossing over a small road, follow the signposting carefully to the exit from the Voie Verte via a path on the left leading directly back to the car park (S/E).
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