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On the D32 road between Narbonne and Gruissan. At the Château Ricardel roundabout, take the Chemin de la Couleuvre. 100 metres to your right, you will find a car park. If the car park is full, you can also park at the south-east end of the Ricardel roundabout, at the foot of the vineyard.
(S/E) Take the path heading south, on your right as you look towards the mountains. After 300 metres, you will enter a small quarry.
(1) Take the path that climbs to your right. The fake cave on your left at the start of the path confirms that you are on the right track. Climb for about 500 metres and you will arrive at an antenna installation. Go around this installation and you will come to a small road. Follow the road uphill for 200 metres.
(2) At the top, opposite you, is the Narbonnais orientation table. Continue along the road for 300 metres until you reach the road called Chemin de la Couleuvre. Turn left and head back downhill.
(3) After the spectacular hairpin bends in the road, just before the last bend, there is a rock jutting out onto the road on the right, with enough space to park a small car at the foot of it. 10 metres before this, take the path that descends to your right (visible 10 metres from the road to the right of a medium-sized fir tree). Pass a barely visible step, then after 100 metres you will come to a vineyard, which you follow by turning right. You enter the valley via a step. Immediately take the first path going uphill, leaving the path at the bottom of the valley on your right. You climb 50 metres towards the east, keeping to your right.
(4) At the top, descend 20 metres. Leave a path returning to the valley on your right and two paths leading to climbing cliffs. After 50 metres, climb straight ahead, slightly to the left (look for a large fir tree with exposed roots). After 5 metres, take the path climbing to the right (ignore the path going downhill). Follow the path, which becomes very steep after 400 metres. Pass a trail starting on the left and reach a grassy area with several tracks. Take the track almost straight ahead, slightly to the left. Then, 100 metres further on, pass a trail on the left. Continue straight ahead on the trail, which is now clearly marked. Descend through the vegetation for 200 metres until you reach a clearing.
(5) Head for the logs on the ground in the clearing, and you will arrive at the foot of the statue of the Virgin Mary. Set off again on the path towards the north-west, on the opposite side to the statue. Continue straight ahead, leaving the path on your right that descends directly towards the vineyards. The path, which gives way to a wider track, then passes through the vineyards.
After the second vineyard, turn left to reach the forest. Continuing straight ahead, you will find the path that leads back into the scrubland, running alongside the vineyard on your right. Follow this path, which, after a few twists and turns and a 20-metre stretch through the vineyard, reaches a bridge over the Combe Mâle stream.
(6) Cross the track and take the path going uphill almost opposite, slightly to the right, to return to the car park (S/E).
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