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(S/E) From the village, follow the D8 to the junction with the D 244, at a place called La Traverse, pass the town hall: hiking information sign.
(1) Follow the path on the left for 900 metres, climbing up the ridge of the Serre de Chantoiseau.
(2) At the Chantoiseau mast, turn right onto the Route des Dragonnades towards the Col de Chomélix.
(3) At this pole, follow the track on the right, heading north-west, which descends to the Temple de Fival. Above the road, you can see the hamlet of Fival.
(4) Do not descend onto the D8, but take a fairly steep path on the left through the chestnut trees. This path crosses a rocky area; it is very well marked and easy to follow. It sometimes widens (track for agricultural use) then becomes a path again, running alongside the Fayes stream. Cross this stream, go through a gate, continue along the path to a small pass and go over the Lès farm on your left.
(5) At the three-way junction (Mât de Lès), turn left towards the south-west and take the path climbing to the summit of Lès. Go through a gate and continue straight ahead across the meadow to the summit marker (altitude 969 m).
From the summit, take the wide path on the left that descends around this small plateau, passing above the Micalaoudou rocks, descends towards the thirty or so characteristic pine trees of the Serre de Lès, then climbs back up to the left towards a landscape information panel.
(6) Then head towards the pine trees. When you reach them, turn right and take a steep path down to the ruined farmhouse of Les Césilles.
(7) Follow it, then turn left and continue along this main path, on the side of the slope, which descends to the pretty hamlet of Le Chier. Reach the Fare mast.
(8) Turn left and continue to the hamlet of Le Chier, then cross it.
(9) At the exit of the hamlet, head towards Saint-Étienne-de-Serres on the left, along a wide track between terraces and meadows, which leads back to the Col de Chomélix.
(3) Turn right and follow the same route as on the way there to return to Saint-Étienne-de-Serres (S/E).
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