Country:
District:
Park, if possible, in the centre of the village of Cabrières, otherwise near the Cabrières Cooperative Winery (D15).
(S/E) Head north of the village (D124) towards Clermont-l'Hérault. Cross the Route de Clermont. Take the small tarmac road on the right (Chemin des Figuières), crossing a bridge over the Boyne. Continue for about 1 km.
(1) Turn left onto the path marked with a sign: Pioch Farrus - Mine. Continue along this path, ignoring the turnings on the left. Pass above the Pioch Farrus Mine museum building. Continue along the main road, crossing a small bridge with iron railings.
(2) After a right-hand bend, turn right onto the path that runs alongside fields and climbs up to a small road, which you should take on the left. This quickly becomes a dirt track (Chemin des Roques-Blancas).
(3) At this fork, turn left after a low stone wall. Stay on this wide track until you reach the Broum Neolithic Site.
(4) Just after this former archaeological excavation site, take the path on the left, which becomes increasingly narrow and climbs towards a pine forest. In front of a small stone wall, turn left and continue up a steep slope, surrounded by heather bushes. Use your GPS on this section. The path ends near a ruined square building.
(5) Go past it at the front and continue until you reach the fence of a private estate. Turn right and follow this fence, keeping an eye out for a steep climb, which you should then tackle.
(6) At the top of the hill, turn right onto a wide path.
(7) Follow it to the left, uphill, to the ruins of the Church of Saint-Gély d'Arques. On the left side of the climb, there is a beautiful drystone shelter that can be used as shelter in case of bad weather.
(8) Descend the path.
(7) Take a grassy path on the left that is just visible. Use your GPS on this section. About a hundred metres further on, you will see an isolated tree. This path continues horizontally at first, then descends, skirting a ruined building on the left. It leads to a wide track. At this junction, on the left, there is an old water supply point (basin). Take the ascending branch on the right until you reach a fork.
(9) At this point, there are two possible options:
- continue straight ahead, along the track that joins the route near the antenna.
- Turn left onto a PR® marked path, going around Le Mougno, following this description.
This path describes a large circular loop to the right, turning south. Join a wide DFCI SAL 3 track. Follow it to the right, south-west/west, for 350 m.
(10) Then take the path going up to the left, marked PR®, passing to the left of the antenna.
(11) Leave the PR® and take the path on the left until you reach the Croix de Trescol. Then turn sharply left onto a small tarmac road and continue for 350 m.
(12) Take the track on the right (green barrier) and, at the large fork, take the track that climbs to the right and join another fork.
(13) Take the path going up to the right. It runs alongside a collapsed section of ground (probably the remains of a barite extraction site). Continue along this track for about 1 km until you reach a T-junction (La Roque). Turn right.
(14) Leave the track and take a path that branches off to the right. You will come to another track, which you should also follow to the right.
(15) After a discovery panel, take the pretty path on the right, where there are other explanatory panels, before arriving at the village. Cross the D15 and continue to the right towards the car park (S/E).
Visorando member
Easy 
