This is a cue sheet for the Cipieres - Plateau de Calern Running / Walking Route. You can print it out for later use.
Cumulative | Distance | Where | Notes | Direction | Elevation | |
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0km | 0km | Cipieres | NNW | 322° | 762m | |
0.7km | 0.7km | Turn left at the sign - going straight on is the GR4 if you want to skip seeing the borrie | SW | 204° | 816.3m | |
3.5km | 2.8km | The borrie is clearly signed as a descent at the juntion of paths once you emerge from the stream valley | ESE | 109° | 996.5m | |
3.8km | 0.2km | The Borrie | SW | 216° | 947m | |
5.3km | 1.5km | Under the electricity cables there is a path that wiggles up the hill left - take this instead of going all the way back to the GR4 | NNW | 348° | 863.9m | |
6.4km | 1.1km | The GR4 appears just before you get to a building. Take this and don't stay ont he track | SSW | 183° | 966.7m | |
7.3km | 0.9km | You've done the major up now its easy... | WSW | 240° | 1092.2m | |
9km | 1.8km | If you don't feel like going to the observatory you can take the signed trail right | W | 253° | 1259m | |
9.5km | 0.5km | The highest point is in fact a water tank. You can climb on it and admire the giant golf ball in the seawards direction | SSE | 150° | 1279.2m | |
11.2km | 1.6km | continue straight on pass the stone building | WNW | 277° | 1234.5m | |
11.6km | 0.4km | The path turns sharp right here. It is marked with a couple of cairns and a faded yellow paint stripe but it's easy to miss | E | 90° | 1252.7m | |
12.5km | 0.9km | As you start the descent into the valley stop following the vehicle track as the path contours through the wood on the right. Again it is marked with a cairn and faded yellow paint blob but it's easy to miss | ENE | 53° | 1259.9m | |
13.7km | 1.2km | you need to cross the track not stay on it | WNW | 290° | 1163.8m | |
13.9km | 0.3km | again do not be distracted by vehicle tracks | NW | 303° | 1126.8m | |
14.6km | 0.7km | Now you join a track and stay on it all the way back to the original turn off to the borrie just above Cipieres | ENE | 52° | 1034m | |
15.4km | 0.8km | The yellow marked path is supposed to contune contouring around here but it's extremely overgrown so don't try it | NE | 36° | 943.7m | |
17.6km | 2.2km | SSE | 154° | 756.2m |