Tourves: Saint-Probace - Caramy Gorges

To put it simply :
follow the yellow PR route and you'll be fine.
You can, of course, do it in any direction you like.
Enjoy the walk!

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Very nice walk. Brother Sérafin opened the chapel to us and explained its history. The panorama is superb. We followed the route as described, but if we did it again, we wouldn't go down to point 5, go up to 6 and then back down to 7. We would keep to the yellow-marked ridge path that goes off to the left before 5 and rejoin the route described just before 7. Work is underway to improve the gorges from the car park to the Rimbert farm. I think there will be even more people along the river in summer.

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We did some reconnaissance in the direction of the topo and then in the opposite direction with the hiking group to find ourselves at the top, in the sun, for the picnic break. Quite an easy hike, very pleasant.
The gorge car park is closed for repairs until January.
Thanks

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It was a lovely walk, especially as the Caramy was full of water following the previous week's rain!

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Difficult starting point to find. The description should be changed. A very fine walk, not very difficult, with magnificent views of the Sainte-Baume, the Sainte Victoire and the Loube on the first part. The second part is a very pleasant walk in the shade along the Caramy.

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I'm correcting the description to improve the start of this walk.

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Hello kitty64

You wrote :
It's not easy to find the starting point. I had indicated Chemin des Grès on my GPS and we finally arrived at the car park at the start of the walk, at the end of a dead-end road.

Why not use the app to get to the start of the walk?
=> Go to the start

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I found the walk very pleasant, with a wide variety of landscapes along the way.
The starting point is not easy to find. I had indicated Chemin des Grès on my GPS and we finally arrived at the car park at the start of the walk, at the end of a dead-end road. The rest of the route is fairly easy to follow, except for the fork to the left, on a very small path, on a bend, on a climb, where you tend to look at your feet!
And surprise, when we arrived at St Probace, after sweating a bit, we discovered a magnificent viewpoint and the Hermit, who heard us coming, opened the door of the Chapel to show us around! The icing on the cake!
In spring, this walk is superb, because in the Caramy gorges the vegetation is a monochrome of green, there's a lot of water in the river and trees over a hundred years old, particularly plane trees! Very nice walk!

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Very nice walk but a little disappointed by the lack of picturesque chapel

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Lovely walk with lovely views on the (steep) ascent to the chapel and a beautiful descent into the Caramy gorges (which had a large flow on the day of the walk).
Don't follow Waze or Maps to get to the car park...just follow the directions in the information sheet.

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Access to the starting point is complicated by the app. WAZE or Google Map. By clicking on the GPS point, they took us to a very stony dirt track on the other side of the stream. To be on the safe side, it's best to enter chemin des Grès in addition to the information provided by the web user.

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Hello,
I'm copying/pasting a comment I wrote on 31 October (see below) because no changes have been made...
- and especially at point three, the path to take on the left after the steep slope is well before the top of the hill. It is marked in blue (but the markings are not very visible).
We've fixed on the indication "at the top of the steep path" and that's what's misleading us.
Please change your information.
Otherwise it's a great route!
Pierre

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A very pretty and easy walk. At the chapel, we weren't lucky enough to come across the hermit, but 2 friendly cats who were only too happy to share our picnic. The walk along the river was very pleasant. We didn't put our feet in the water, which we would have been happy to do in summer.

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You have to follow the tracks carefully to make sure you don't get lost.
It's a very pleasant walk, with alternating sections in the heath amidst thyme and rosemary and in the undergrowth.

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A very pleasant and enjoyable route. A few clarifications:
- at point 1 the route is marked in yellow as far as the chapel (which makes it easier to follow).
- after the chapel, when you descend towards the Sayou sheepfold, leave a track with yellow marks on the left to continue straight on.
- At point three, the path to take on the left after the steep climb is well before the top of the hill. It is marked in blue (but the markings are not very visible).
Everything else is OK.

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