HIKE OF THE GRÉZAC PLATEAU

1

From the Municipal Park, take the direction of Grézac and reach the information board Le Livre du Lodévois. Enter the paved path along a high wall, thus reaching Pierre-Masse avenue. Immediately turn left onto a stone-paved path. Cross two roads, continue straight ahead on a trail through vegetation of scrub plants.

2

Leave the trail to climb left via a path between two dry stone walls. Pass in front of capitelles (former shelters for shepherds or farmers) and reach a junction of wider paths.

3

Option to take a variant (Le Livre du Lodévois circuit, 7.5 km, 2 h 30). Go left onto the path and continue on the dry stone path dotted with capitelles. Reach former cultivated terraces (viewpoint over the Lodève valley). Further along, rejoin the main circuit. Go right for 150 m.

4

Access to the oppidum: 800 m round trip (slippery when wet). Take a rocky path on the left; it climbs into the woods up to the remains of the oppidum located on the puech of Grézac (507 m). Then return the same way. Continue at the edge of the woods. At a right curve, climb left between broom bushes, amid a carpet of aphyllantes. Go around the cliff, reach a path and go left then right. Climbs in switchbacks along the axis of Lauroux valley (viewpoint over the Labeil cirque), reach a rock slab (viewpoint over the foothills of Larzac, Mont Saint-Baudille, Salagou lake and the Escandorgue plateau) (do not approach the edge).

5

Squeeze through the vegetation. Pass a steep section, leave a path on the right and reach an open area. Follow left the straight path bordered with hunting stands among pine and cedar trees. Orient left, ignore a path on the left to reach a fork.

6

Climb right, reach a trail, descend left. Join a DFCI path (forest defense against fires); follow it to the right, ignoring a path to the right further along.

7

Leave the path left by a rocky path (Gallo-Roman road) which descends between boxwoods and broom bushes. Cross a path and continue straight ahead on a wide path to a junction (connection with the variant).

8

Descend by the path on the right. Cross the Mayres road. The path widens and passes between high walls. Pass two chicanes and reach a tarmacked road. Continue straight ahead through the houses of the Fontbonne neighborhood, ignoring streets to the right. Return to the starting point.

In case of emergency, call 112.

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