Date of your route : Mar 22, 2026
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No
Indeed, as mickeyhead points out, the highlight of this walk is the Saint-Rémy stream. Between points 2 and 3, on the cliff path leading away from Saint-Rémy-de-Salers towards Vedèche, it’s a real pleasure to gaze down at the stream’s gentle meanders below.
Unlike Franck 16, we had no trouble finding the start of the walk this time (but that’s not always the case! We too sometimes struggle to find our bearings at the start, despite the directions provided!).
No, for us, it was afterwards that things got complicated...
We got it wrong at point 1: we certainly saw – how could we miss it! – that sort of old barn with a roof largely collapsed, but we would never have taken it for an ‘old buron ’: in our fresh Cantalian minds, a buron refers more to a small building. What’s more, we’d confused Saint-Rémy-de-Salers with another Saint-???-de-Salers and imagined it to be bigger.
So, convinced that we weren’t dealing with a buron and just as convinced that we weren’t in Saint-Rémy-de-Salers but in a small hamlet lost at the bottom of the valley (Le Puy Delmas? … yet there’s no church in a hamlet…), we carried on straight ahead… ...until we reached the point where the stream flows into the Maronne, near the riding centre. An encounter and a brief walk and chat with a local resident had taken us a fair way off course...
A closer look at the map and, above all, our GPS finally switched on got us back on track.
In fact, at point 1, on the right, an ochre-coloured arrow has been more or less traced in the moss covering a rock: you do indeed need to turn right, towards the old large buron with the dismantled roof, thus leaving the green markings.
DON’T MISS POINT 4: because the road also turns left, but it is indeed the small path forming an obtuse angle with the road that you must take. We walked past it the first time without noticing it. (That said, you would still reach Roupeyroux by continuing along the road: this is the shortcut mentioned at the bottom of the guide by mickeyhead.)
PLEASE NOTE: Point 5 is not (or no longer) where it is shown on the map accompanying this guide: thanks to User 13052952 for pointing this out; otherwise we might have turned left onto the road, thinking our GPS was malfunctioning due to insufficient signal! The path actually joins the road after the hairpin bend on the D537, so there are about 300–400 metres of the red route marked with a point, at the ‘Taillers’, which do not exist. If you’re following the red route on a GPS, once you’ve left the path and are on the tarmac, make sure you turn right; don’t try in vain to follow the virtual red point to the left. CORRECTED SINCE
mickeyhead mentions a “stony” path: in reality, it is only slightly stony before point 1; he has classified this hike as “moderate” in terms of difficulty: in fact, we tend to agree with Franck 16, who describes it as an “easy route with no particular difficulty”. Finally, the very stony section, which is the steepest and most technical, is the one off the main route between point 1 and La Maronne – especially on the way up!! – and which we did first on the way down and then on the way up (after turning back)!
We might not, however, go so far as to undertake this hike with young children, as Franck 16 suggests, because we do find it rather long—2 hours—and, towards the end, it climbs, gently, certainly, but steadily, for nearly 2 km... ...But that’s just our opinion... ...everyone knows their own group and their capabilities.
Finally, an observation we’ve already made regarding other walks: specifically regarding this final stretch, on tarmac and uphill, it’s not particularly interesting, mainly because the Cantal mountains are behind us! Perhaps there is a way to do this walk in the opposite direction, making this section more enjoyable, with the Cantal mountains facing you at the start of the walk...
We think the various ascents and descents are equally challenging in either direction, but this remains to be seen...
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