Pech Curet - Fontenille - Aurimont

Date of your route : Dec 09, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

We hiked on the 9th and 12th in beautiful sunshine, along lovely paths, passing numerous garriottes, caves, dolmens and viewpoints.
We visited some very pleasant and pretty villages.
No difficulty, accompanied by birdsong.

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Date of your route : Jan 12, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

Clarify in point 2: take the road on the right.
No problem finding your way if you use the GPS route.
An easy walk, which we completed with part of another circular described here, to see the caves and gariottes.
We didn't get many "views" as we did the walk on a foggy winter's day.
Thank you for sharing.

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Date of your route : May 19, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

At Pech Curet, it is worth visiting the gariottes (stone huts), dolmen and cave, but the signposting at Pech Curet is unclear. Do not take the path immediately to the left that passes in front of a lodge, but the next path instead. It would be worth improving the signposting.
Then, in Fontenille, the term "village" is not appropriate; it is just a hamlet with four or five houses. When you pass in front of the "sheepfold", you feel like you are entering someone's private property, but the path is definitely there. There are no markers to take you to Fontenille and beyond at the start, so it is a bit unclear.
Otherwise, Aurimont is a pretty village, and I was able to take some beautiful photos.

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Date of your route : Mar 21, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : Yes

This hike: very good, beautiful views, pretty villages, pleasantThere are some climbs at the beginning, then it's downhill. A quarter of it is on tarmac.

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Date of your route : Aug 03, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Don't forget to take the short circular starting from Pech Curet to see the beautiful view, the dolmen and the entrance to the cave, plus the picnic table, which served us well.

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Date of your route : May 15, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

to be avoided in hot weather

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Date of your route : Jul 06, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A beautiful, fairly varied hike that is not too difficult. Not much tarmac, trees for shade, pleasant scenery.

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Date of your route : Jan 27, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

I had trouble finding the start of the hike, and I think it's a shame to miss out on the dolmen and caves along the way.
However, thank you to everyone who takes the trouble to organise these walks for us.

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Date of your route : Oct 19, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

We got a bit lost towards the end, but it was a lovely walk.

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Date of your route : Oct 03, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

Hello
We didn't complete the entire route because we got off to a bad start, but we managed to find the route. For us 'Sunday walkers' who don't have a compass or anything else, the route descriptions aren't clear enough and lack precision, but we still managed to find our way thanks to the map.
e.g. Departure from the centre of the hamlet of Pech Curet towards Gourdon. At 600m, beautiful view of Gourdon (north-east)... no signs on site. I think we did the route backwards, but that's not a big deal and we ended up doing more than the hike.
A superb walk in the woods, very little road (which we like). I still recommend it. To be done again.

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Date of your route : May 04, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

A lovely walk to do with children, whatever the weather.

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Hello, everyone.
To make this hike run more smoothly, waypoints have been included in the description.
Enjoy your walks.

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Date of your route : Mar 08, 2015
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

Pretty spots typical of the Lot region, a beautiful view of the surrounding landscape from Aurimont, the Céou river below is worth a detour, small river in flood when we passed by.

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