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Parking at the cemetery in the hamlet of Saint-Martin, south of La Boissière via the D27.
(S/E) Head north on the road above the car park. Take Chemin de l'Église, pass the chapel and continue to a fork.
(1) Turn left and, after 50 metres, turn left onto the dirt track that leads away from the houses and joins a crossroads.
(2) Continue right towards the north then north-east to reach the corner of plots planted with vines. The path runs along their edge towards the north-east. Continue along the path through the undergrowth and go around the vines with a tall stone obelisk in view.
(3) After taking a look at the obelisk, retrace your steps and take the marked trail (GR®653) which follows an old railway line. Cross the tarmac road and continue straight ahead on the same trail until you reach the red earth of the old bauxite quarry, now flooded.
(4) Retrace your steps a little to find the easiest path to cross the ditch-stream that separates you from the quarry. Continue along the lake on the trail that leads to the D27.
(5) Cross it and follow it on the left for 50 metres before leaving it for a track on the right that turns and climbs slowly into the forest and passes in front of the posts of a gate without a door marking the access to the Source d'Aigues Vives. Making a wide curve to the right, continue west to the spring.
(6) Continue west, ignoring a wide path on the left, then turn south.
(7) Cross a ford over a small bridge and climb uphill. After a sharp right turn, look for two cypress trees that mark the location of the hermitage. Follow the path on the right through the undergrowth between the holm oaks to reach the site of the Valcrose hermitage.
(8) Continue along the path opposite the church and take the well-marked path on the left through the undergrowth, which leads back up to the track you left earlier.
(9) Take it on the right, go around the vineyards and then climb up to the tarmac track leading to the Puech Bartelié telecommunications antenna.
(10) Climb up to the right to reach it and the large cross at the base of which there is an orientation table.
(11) Retrace your steps.
(10) Take the tarmac road on the right, which leads back to the hamlet of Saint-Martin.
(12) At the crossroads, turn left to return to the starting point (S/E).
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