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Access to the starting point: take the D1420 road, exit at Urmatt, follow the D392, then the D218 through Niederhaslach and Oberhaslach. Pass the Refuge du Luttenbach car park. Park about 1 km further on at the next car park.
(S/E) Leave the car park on the right and follow the Red Rectangle marked trail, which is theGR®53, climbing to the bottom of the Nideck Waterfall.
(1) Climb the path to the right of the waterfall to the top of the stairs. Continue on the left, still following the red rectangle markings. Climb up to the Nideck Waterfall viewpoint, then to the lower Nideck Castle.
(2) Turn right, following the valley on your right, then rejoin it. Continue uphill until you reach the D218 car park opposite the Nideck Forest House.
(3) Leave the forest house on your left and turn right onto the D218. At the next car park, leave the road and follow the Sentier des Pèlerins de Saint-Florent (Saint-Florent Pilgrims' Trail), marked with blue rectangles, on your right. At the pass, cross the track and continue on the path that descends to the left to the Kasperlehep Pond.
(4) Descend to the right along the path marked with a yellow triangle, at the bottom of the valley, until you hear and see the Luttenbach stream through the vegetation. Be careful here: access to the stream is dangerous. Continue downhill to the next junction with a track.
(5) Turn left onto the path marked with a red easel. Pass two sculptures on the Sentier des Géants du Nideck (Nideck Giants Trail). Shortly afterwards, descend to the right onto a small path marked with a red easel and blue triangle to the Hohensteinwald forest house, then to the D218.
(6) Cross the D218 and follow it to the left. Shortly afterwards, turn right and climb up the forest road.
(7) At the confluence of the two valleys, turn right onto the path marked with a blue cross. Climb up to the Weinbaechel stream, taking care here too as the access is dangerous. Continue climbing, following the same markings, to the Weinbaechel Forest House.
(8) Pass the forest house and continue on the path to the left, marked with a blue cross, until you reach the junction with theGR® 532.
(9) Take the path on the right, marked with a yellow rectangle and red disc, and continue to the next fork.
(10) Continue straight ahead, ignoring a path on the right and then one on the left, until you reach a crossroads.
(11) Take the path marked with a yellow triangle on the right (leaving the red disc markings on the left). Join a path on the right.
(12) Follow this path downhill, cross a path and reach a footbridge.
(13) Take it and then turn left onto the D218, which you follow for 300 metres to return to the car park (S/E).
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