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| Cucuron. |
This is a local walk around
Cucuron, starting with Chapelle de l’Hermitage with great views. Afterwards the
walks go eastwards on the GR9 trail in direction of Cabrieres d’Aigues, but you
take off this trail down passed the old ruins of la Reynaude. You continue
further down south passed la Boissieres and finally arriving at Galon before
you enter Cucuron again along the vineyards.
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| Montagne Saint Victoir. |
You start the walk from the bottom
of the l’Etang (parking area in here on the right) and follow signs for
Vaugines. You take off left from this route fairly soon onto the vineyard route
(wrought iron signs). Take right, however, from this route at the end of the
first fields and you will soon be up at the main road between Cucuron and
Vaugines at Guet. Go straight across this road and further north onto the
little road that takes off here. You will soon see la Chapelle l’Hermitage in
the distant hill and you will be up there in about 40 minutes from l’Etang de
Cucuron.
You pass by the Chapelle (either
side) and continue the forest track road on the back. In about 15-20 minutes
you will be on the 530 meter point where you meet up with the main forest fire
road (GL-31) going all the way up to Mourre Negre. Just across this road, however,
you see the red & white GR markers on a path going into the woods here for
la Tuiliere (the GR route comes along the road from Cucuron and turns right
here). You want to take this path in order to join the old road between Aix and
Apt at la Tuiliere (Chemin d’Apt).
Follow the GR markings up to the
next yellow signpost at Vallon de la Fayette, where the GR route take off to
the right for Cabrieres d’Aigues. You arrive here about 40 minutes after
leaving la Chapelle l’Hermitage and you take right here for “Cabrieres
d’Aigues”. You stay on the GR trail for about 30 minutes. At the 763 meter
point where the path takes a 270 degrees turning to the left in a rocky climb,
you see a good path taking off down to your right. Take this path and after 15
minutes you come to a small opening suitable for a lunch.
At the 577 meter point, after about
1,7km from the GR trail you are in the vicinity of the ruins of la Reynaude (a
smaller path takes off to the left and the ruins is only 100 meters further
down). But there is not much to see now. The ruins are almost completely taken
over by vegetation, so I suggest you just continue on the main path.
About 25 minutes after the ruins,
the path ends up on a track road which you will follow for another 10 minutes
until you turn left onto another track road further down. After only less than
5 minutes, however, at the 421 meter point, you turn right off this road onto
another track road going straight south (turning off in a small hill). A good
15 minutes later you should end up crossing the main road between Cucuron and
Cabrieres d’Aigues at the 377 meter point.
You cross the main road and go
directly onto the small road on the other side. The road passes 2 houses (good
distance) and continues south till it meets up with the extension of Chemin de
Galon, another small track road that goes straight back in to Cucuron. You will
be walking along some private fields, but keep to the edges and you will be ok.
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| Mourre Negre. |
When you get to the end of the
track road (what I called the extension of Chemin de Galon) you will be at the
345 meter point (Galon), where 5 roads meet. Instead of going straight ahead on
Chemin Galon, I suggest you take the second left turning and walk down 200
meters till you see a nice track road taking off to the right leading you
straight to Cucuron along the vineyards.
When you reach Cucuron, go straight
across the main road and into the village here. This little road will take you
up to the Church and just continue through the village till you come out at the
other side; at the l’Etang.
Basic
information:
Duration: 6h (incl. 1h lunch)
Distance: 15 km.
Ascent: 460 m
Difficulty: Moderate
Start/finish: Cucuron
Map: IGN 3243 OT (1cm=250 m)
VisoRando Lien.
Pour le fichier GPX,
vous pouvez télécharger à partir d'ici (voir ci-dessus) ou mettre à jour via ce
lien VisoRando où vous pourrez également voir l'itinéraire sur une bonne carte:
For the GPX-file, you
could download from here (see just above) or go to this VisoRando link where
you also will see the route on a good
map.
If
you have problems with this VisoRando link, download the GPX-file from above
and import it to VisoRando or other application.
TET:
19.06.2020 Anne: 6h30min total (slow), lunch 12.00 at Ruins. GR'en litt bratt nedover og
steinete. Bedre å gå den andre veien? Ikke når varmt! Og lite lunch-plasser
langs GR'en. En fin tur også i varmen med mest skygge etter 1 time.
steinete. Bedre å gå den andre veien? Ikke når varmt! Og lite lunch-plasser
langs GR'en. En fin tur også i varmen med mest skygge etter 1 time.
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