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Access: from Lauzet-Ubaye, take the road on the left as you leave the village (towards Digne) towards Le Villard - Le Seuil. The hike starts in the hamlet of Le Villard. Follow this road to the hamlet of Le Villard.
(S/E) The path starts at the end of the paved road on the right and is marked as aPR® trail.
(1) A few metres above the last houses, the path splits in two. Take the left-hand path (the right-hand path is for the return journey). A little further on, it climbs steeply through the forest to join a forest track.
(2) Follow it to the left for about 300 m.
(3) Before the stream crossing, take the path that climbs to the right. This path is a little steep with tight hairpin bends but then becomes easier until you reach Lac de la Cabane. This lake only has water in spring. In summer, it can be completely dry but its stony bed is easy to spot.
(4) Pass the place called La Cabane, a shepherd's hut in summer and a mountain restaurant in winter for the resort of Saint-Jean Montclar - Le Lauzet. The path continues along the mountainside on the right above the enclosures to reach Lac du Milieu.
(5) Go around the lake on the left to reach the other end and continue through the pastures and under the ski lifts to reach Lac Noir. Remember that swimming is not allowed.
(6) Return via the same route as on the way there until you reach Lac de la Cabane.
(4) Then take the north bank of Lac de la Cabane on the left and descend slowly through a pretty meadow at the start.
(7) Follow the larch and Swiss pine forest again until you reach a forest track.
(8) Do not take this track but continue along a good path through the forest to catch up with a bend in the track further down, which you follow, passing afirst bend turning to the right.
(9) At the next bend turning left, leave the forest track and take the path on the right, which winds downhill to the crossroads you came from.
(1) Continue straight ahead to reach the hamlet of Villard (S/E).
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