A short climb to Le Viala on a pleasant forest path. From there on, the slope becomes gentler but you continue uphill to the hamlet of Racoules, which has a beautiful viewpoint onto the upper Tarn valley and the Causse Méjean plateau.
To return to Le Viala, you use a magnificent cobbled path under cover of the chestnut trees.
You finish where you started.

Follow the waymarks for trail #22.
Signposts will guide you all along this route, as well as yellow painted waymarks. In the description below, the signposted place names and/or directions are given in bold italics between quotation marks:

Starting at "Pont-de-Montvert", go to :

1. "Le Temple",


2. "Place de l'Horloge",


3. "La Destourbe", and “Le Viala”.


4. From “Le Viala”, do the clockwise loop "Le Viala",


5. "Racoule", "Le Viala". Return "Pont-de-Montvert Sud Mont Lozère" via "La Destourbe", "Place de l'Horloge", "Temple".  

This trail is taken from the guidebook Mont Lozère – Pays des sources, published by the Pôle de pleine nature du mont Lozère.