FROM STRONG HEADS TO INFERNAL COMBES

From the cooperative cellar, take the direction of Quai d'Orbieu, leave the village by the D611, route de St Laurent and turn left on the 1st small road just after the bridge. After about 230m, turn left. After the ford on the Nielle river, take a wide path on the left. Continue through vineyards to the small road that leads to Ferrals les C, along the Nielle (not always visible). After the cemetery, continue straight on rue de l'Egalité then cross the D106 and continue opposite by rue des Nobles and avenue des Vignerons. The markup is common with the yellow PR "the Lauza loop". At the fork, turn right into rue de la pinède and exit the village by chemin de La Prade. At the next fork, go up in the direction of Lauza that you leave on the left to go down towards the property of La Pujade. A few meters later turn right and leave the small road to enter the pine forest. (Common route with the mountain bike loop "La pinède") Go up the track. At the first fork, turn left, pass the "Sylobre" hunting hut and turn left. Follow the route to an intersection. Turn left to climb towards the Vigie de Boutenac (round trip, access allows you to enjoy the viewpoint at the top). Leave the “La Pinède” mountain bike loop. Continue the common route with the yellow PR of "the loop of the terroirs", until Boutenac (descent towards the D161 which one takes to the right for approximately 450m then path to the right in front of a ruined sheepfold). Exit the village by avenue des Corbières (D161), direction Gasparets then turn right (chemin de l'Allée) before the last houses towards the Château de Boutenac. About 150m later, leave the access road to the castle and continue below in the rue des Remparts. Do not go down towards the village but turn left on the Chemin du Château. Follow the surrounding wall of the park to the end and continue straight ahead below the road via a grassy path. Cross the Garouille stream and continue uphill on the common route with the yellow PR "les combes par la chapelle", in the pine forest of Boutenac. Arrival in front of the St Siméon chapel. Continue to climb the track for about 300m then take the track on the right (we leave the PR). We are on a small variant of about 700m which joins the route of the yellow PR. Leave it definitively about 1200m further on (Combe Naurus). Continue on the track for around 1900m. We follow the Combe des Roumanis and the Combe du Geys before returning to the route followed on the way out on the “terroirs loop”, the “La pinède” mountain bike circuit and in the common sense. Continue on the main track, downhill to the DFCI water tank, which you go around uphill. (Circuit 8 link: about 100 meters before the tank, a downhill track on the left allows a link with circuit 8 towards Thézan.) Continuation: Descent on the main track (we leave the mountain bike circuit "La Pinède" on the way. right at the level of an intersection of tracks) to the Pinada campsite. Cross the D106 and continue opposite between the vines for 350m. Take the 1st path on the right and descend between vines and pine groves. 1100m after, go up a little towards the vineyards of Trotocas, then go down again towards the intersection with the small road. Turn left and at the next intersection, find the way to go back to Fabrezan. Connection between circuit 9 and 8 Departure: Thézan, route de Narbonne about 190m after the crossroads with rue de la Paix Cumulative elevation: 121m Total distance: 2km342m (one way) Rating Direction of traffic described: Thézan / pinède de Boutenac Take the small road which joins the D613; Cross it carefully and continue opposite the small road which climbs due north between the plots of vines. A wide track follows him. It comes to an intersection of tracks: the DFCI tank is a little further on the left.