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To reach the car park, follow the "Base 11/19" signs from Rue Léon Blum.
(S) From the car park, head north, leaving the mine buildings behind, to reach the pedestrian bridge over the dual-carriageway.
(1) Once you've crossed the footbridge, you'll arrive at the site of the twin slag heaps. Take the tarmac path downhill to the right. Before the barrier, take a left-hand path that runs into the woods, entering the slag heap site. 200m further on, at the crossroads, go straight ahead and continue for a hundred metres.
(2) Turn left onto a hairpin path that leads up into the undergrowth.
After a final loop, you come to a wider, straight path, a fence on one side, turn left for 100m.
(3) Turn right onto a path that climbs between the slag heap and the plateau.
(4) Once on the plateau, you can climb slag heap 74.
Caution: steep ascent, which may soon be forbidden.
Take the same path back down and walk counter-clockwise around the plateau (table-shaped slag heap). Rejoin the ascent to slag heap 74A.
(5) The path is wider and winds up to the summit.
(6) Enjoy the view, then take the same path back down.
(5) Join a path which, on the left, slopes gently down to the edge of the plateau (opposite direction to your arrival). The path meanders and then joins an undergrowth.
(7) Turn right into the undergrowth. After a while, you'll reach the westernmost point.
(8) Turn left onto a much more open path. Continue straight ahead and catch up with a wider, straighter path that leads back to the spoil heap site you can see on your left.
(1) Rejoin the starting footbridge and cross the 9/11 base from the other side, to the left. Walk clockwise around the two headframes. Return to the car park (S/E).
