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Leave your vehicle in the car park of the Quézac water bottling plant at the entrance to the village of Molines.
(S/E) Follow the departmental road to the bridge over the Ruisseau de Paros, and turn right immediately after crossing it. Then take the Rue Haute on the left, which winds its way between the houses. Come out onto the Route de Mende and follow it to the right for about 200 metres.
(1) Take the path that climbs up to the left towards the embankment. The path quickly rises and, after three hairpin bends, reaches the fork towards Mas André. This section of the route is potentially dangerous due to loose stones and the steep slope.
(2) At the fork, continue along the path opposite (do not follow the direction of Mas André, as this will be the way back). Cross a watercourse (or at least its traces, at the end of summer) and continue on the opposite side of the thalweg. Continue straight ahead and, at the end of the path, on the outskirts of the village of Paros, turn left at the hairpin bend. Cross the village.
(3) At the oven (despite the cross on top, this is not a chapel), take the drovers' road that climbs just below the farm buildings by making a first turn right then left. The landscape of the causse reveals itself as you walk along, and the scarcity of water becomes apparent as you approach the surface water collection basin and its supply system. Follow the wide path carved into the rock until you reach a crossroads.
(4) Turn left to return to the summit of Mont Chabrié. At the next crossroads, turn right. Do not look for the paths that appear on the map to be shortcuts, as they do not exist, even if the remains of a ladder can still be seen above a fence.
(5) Turn right and continue along the main path that descends to the Causse, to the edge of the Pagès hut. In this area, you will see the first dolines, depressions in the Causse where the grass is greener and crops can be grown.
(6) The hut in question is almost invisible, except for its slate roof, which emerges from the vegetation a few dozen metres below the crossroads. At the crossroads, continue along the main path slightly to the right (due south). Climb back up towards a wooded hill.
(7) At the next crossroads, turn left to descend towards Mas André.
(8) In this village, turn left onto a small path lined with stone embankments, which disappears into the vegetation between the road and the first house (plums in season). Follow the path and then continue along a road for about 350 metres.
(9) Leave the road and turn right towards the woods that cover the slope of the Causse. Cross the pine woods to the edge of the cliff.
(10) Continue east then north-east through boxwood and holm oak trees until you reach the path you took on the way there.
(2) Take the stony path back in the opposite direction, which, after a few steep bends, leads back to the road.
(1) Turn right then left to return to the village of Molines and the car park (S/E).
Visorando Member
Easy 
Association / Club / Walk leader
Difficult 
