Le Puech

Guidebook with maps/step-by-step

Start – Car park, route de Ferrières. Go up towards the village and take the first street on the right. At the cemetery, take the left-hand path.

1- Take the track on the left which rises in the forest. Follow the road to the right towards Valence. At the crow’s-foot, take the left-hand road.

2- Cross the hamlet of Valence, leaving a street on your right, then turn right.

3- After 100 m, turn right. View of the Margeride and Monts du Cantal.

4- Turn left on the track, then continue on the road opposite.

5- At the D21, turn left onto a track.

6- At Chabassaire, cross the road and take a track going downhill opposite.

7- At Plavarenne, turn left at the crossroads. After 100 m, follow the river on your right. Cross it a little further down and go up into the pine undergrowth.

8- Go back down to the meadow and cross it to join the road above.

9- Take the road to the left. At the crossroads, turn left.

10- Take the first track on the left.

11- At Puech, turn right onto a track. Before a pine wood, take the track on the left. It then descends the hillside towards a hamlet.

12- Turn right after the modern barn, then descend to the bottom of the hamlet. Go under the rock, then down a track to the right.

13- Cross the road, pass the chicane and descend. Cross the Peyrusse stream and go up opposite the church.