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Park on the right bank of the lake.
(S/E) From the Bious-Artigues car park, take the wide track at the barrier that goes around the right bank of the lake. Pass a series of clearings with a riding centre on your right, then a holding pen. The track enters the woods, passes the Pont d'Ayous bridge and climbs up to a barrier. Continue for 100m.
(1) Leave theGR®®10, which climbs to the right to the Col d'Ayous. Descend to the left along the track that crosses the Gave de Bious at the base of a vast plateau. Continue along the right bank following the meanders and, just after a drop, leave the track in a zigzag.
(2) Take the path on the left which winds its way up through clearings. The original cairned path leads into a rocky gorge which it climbs up to a plateau. You will reach the crossroads of the path leading to the Cabane de Peyreget.
(3) Bear left at a stream until you reach a grassy ledge, then return to the right to join a wide path carved into the slope. Stay on this path, which leads in stages to the moraines of Lac de Peyreget. Leave the shortcut to Col de Peyreget on your left and follow the zigzag path to Col de l'Iou.
(4) Take the path on the left that runs along the entire southern slope of Pic Peyreget and reach Col du Soum de Pombie at the junction with the Anéou path.
(5) Take the path on the left leading to the Refuge de Pombie.
(6) Continue across the moraines (late snowfields may make progress difficult) and climb up to the Col de Suzon.
(7) Follow the path on the right, which winds down to the bottom of the upper Magnabaigt valley. Pass the drop of a pretty waterfall and reach the clearing of the Col Long de Magnabaigt on the left bank. At the very bottom, after the cromlechs, leave the track that plunges left into the woods.
(8) Follow the original path to the right; it immediately turns left under the track and winds its way through the forest, interspersed with another track, to the car park at the start of the walk, next to the dry toilets (S/E).
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