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To reach the start, Chapias is between Rosières and Labeaume on the D315. There is a large car park at the entrance to the village.
(S/E) From the car park, walk back down towards the D315 and immediately turn left onto a small tarmac road.
Continue straight ahead on this road, which becomes a path, ignoring all the paths to the right and left. After the last house with a garden full of cacti, go left around a bend into a ravine.
(1) At the Rouseiret hiking information post, just before the edge of the plateau, open the electric fence and turn right onto a path through the rocks. Follow the white-yellow markings.
(2) Turn right onto a small path between two stone walls. Be careful, the start is not very visible, so follow the markings carefully. Join a wide path and turn left.
(3) At the first crossroads, leave the markings and head left towards a small house. Continue along this path until you reach the D315.
(4) Take the road on the right and, 150 metres further on, leave it to take a path on the left.
Then take the first path on the right and continue along the edge of the plateau, leaving the electricity pylon on your right.
(5) At the crossroads in front of a fence, take the path on the left. Opposite a second fence, turn right this time, as the path on the left is a dead end. Walk along the fence and leave a path on your right.
(6) At a three-way junction, leave the path that starts to descend on your left and take a smaller path on your right that runs horizontally.
Immediately after, at a three-way junction, take the path on the left. The two paths are almost parallel, but the upper one turns right at a wall corner. Continue straight ahead and walk along the wall, leaving it on your right, still following the edge of the plateau. The paths in this section are not shown on the IGN map but are marked on OpenStreetMap.
At a crossroads, join a white-and-yellow marked trail that comes in from the left.
(7) Continue straight ahead, following the markings. Pass a path on your right. The path then turns right, heading due east. Pass a path on your left and join an unpaved road.
(8) Turn right onto this road and then immediately leave it to take a path on the left. In the following section, which is not marked, the path does not appear on the IGN map but is correctly indicated on the OpenStreetMap. However, it is clearly visible and very busy, including with motorbikes.
(9) After a first viewpoint over the Ligne valley, join a wider path. Take this path on the left, which gradually becomes a trail again. Continue zigzagging through the heath.
(10) At the junction with a perpendicular path, take the path on the left.
(11) At an intersection marked by two stacked stone columns, turn left. After a few hundred metres, the path becomes a ledge above the Ligne Valley with a beautiful view of the meanders.
(12) After a wider passage at the bottom of the valley, then on top of a stone wall, look for a path that leaves the ledge and climbs to the right onto the plateau. After a short detour on the ledge to enjoy the view, take this path.
This leads to a wide path on rock slabs. Turn right. Leave a path on your right (the continuation of the one you left earlier). You will come to a road where you will find the white-yellow markings again. Turn right.
(13) Cross a road and then turn right at the next one (the markings make an unnecessary detour to the left).
At the next crossroads, turn sharply left to reach the hamlet of L'Abeille.
Pass through the hamlet and continue along the path to the next houses.
(14) Leave the markings and turn right onto a path halfway between the two houses.
Then turn left and then right to rejoin the signposts, which you will follow to the end. At the Cavagnac cross, take the road on the right and then turn left at the Mission cross to return to the starting point (S/E).
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