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Departure from the Col de Valouse. To get there, follow the D130 between Teyssières and Saint-Férréol-Trente-Pas. At the pass, turn onto the small road and park on the left in the grassy car park.
(S/E) Continue along the small road that extends from the car park. Leave a track on your left and turn left at the next intersection. After passing a hairpin bend, you will reach a three-way junction with a barrier on the track that branches off to the right.
Continue along the path through the woods that starts to the left of the barrier. Follow this path until you reach a track.
(1) Follow this uphill and walk along the lavender field on your left until you reach the corner at the edge of the woods. Immediately after, take the small path that starts on the left in the heath and runs along the field. This turns right after about 50 metres.
(2) At the fork with the return trail, continue straight ahead up a steep climb. After crossing a pine forest, the trail continues along the hillside and joins the bottom of a gully below the rocky peaks.
Follow the bottom of the valley on a fairly steep climb, crossing small rock steps (no difficulty). Ignore the small paths on the left until you are about 50 metres below the rocky peaks. The path then turns left and then right and joins a fork at the Col de Portalier.
(3) Turn right for a few metres, enjoy the view to the right of the path, then continue under a beautiful beech forest. Reach the mountain pastures and an intersection with the path that descends towards the Col de Blanc.
(4) Continue to the right and reach the summit. Follow the ridge to reach the summit of Montagne de Miélandre.
(5) After enjoying the view, begin the descent via the same route until the slope levels out, then turn left to reach a small hut below.
(6) Continue right towards the south on an almost horizontal trail and reach the southern shoulder at the upper edge of the forest.
(7) Begin the descent. After a few metres, you will reach a grassy area with a small flat section. Make a hook to the left for about ten metres and find the start of the path on the right. Follow this path down a steep descent with numerous small hairpin bends. The slope then becomes gentler and the path reaches the Col de l'Étoile.
(8) At the pass, continue downhill to the right, passing above the Ravin de Fourrane and then above the ruins at the shoulder of the mountain. The trail then turns into a track. Reach the first hairpin bend.
(9) Leave the track and take the small path opposite, which runs alongside a fence on your left. Ford the stream, ignore a path branching off to the right just after and continue downhill. About 50 metres further down, climb up the embankment, follow a fence on your right and you will reach the first house in the hamlet of Valouse.
(10) Descend to the left to make a round trip to the wash house below. At the road, continue left and reach it just before the stream.
(10) On your return, follow the track to the left, pass two gullies and continue to a meadow below a house. Cross this meadow and rejoin the track that runs alongside it above. After a left-hand bend, you will see a "no entry" sign on a tree with a "private property" sign.
(11) Take the grassy path on the right between the pine trees. At the open, flatter area, continue to the right and climb a short hill to rejoin the route taken on the way there.
(2) Continue downhill and return to the car park via the same route you took on the way there (S/E).
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