Pedestrian path of Boé Arérédi

COURSE DESCRIPTION

D Starting point (GPS : 535 431 - 7 613 525 ; alt. 13 m / 42 ft) : immediately take a right (east). Follow the vegetated area, between the road and the flank. When you get to the entrance of the valley, turn left northwards and walk on a grassy track down to the valley floor. Reach the beginning of the climb.

1 Banyan (Ficus sp.) (GPS : 535 963 - 7 614 500 ; alt. 38 m / 125 ft) : (this tree is estimated to be 220 years. It is an epiphyte that doesn’t steal its victim’s sap. It simply leans on it, but, little by little, its roots choke out its stake) : start the progressive climb in hairpin bends towards northwest up to the pass.

2 Pass (GPS : 535 622 - 7 614 730 ; alt. 110 m / 360 ft) : continue the ascent due south, following the ridge. The hiking trail alternates between hillside paths and tracks in hairpin bends on one side or the other of the ridge, until you get to the first lookout.

3 Lookout (GPS : 535 675 - 7 614 340 ; alt. 148 m / 485 ft) : keep on walking southwards , and then towards southwest, till you reach the summit.

4 Lookout (GPS : 535 514 - 7 614 147 ; alt. 185 m / 606 ft) (bench, view on the blue ribbon drawn by the Shark Island channel in the axis of the ridge, « Faille de l’îlot Shark » information sign - « Fault of the Shark Island »): begin the descent in hairpins towards southwest down to the next lookout (respect the track in hairpins, so as not to accelerate soil erosion or damage the vegetation).

5 Lookout (GPS : 535 401 - 7 613 849 ; alt. 104 m / 341 ft) (« Marais et forêts » information sign) : continue walking down, first westwards and then southwards, till you reach the entrance of the small valley, from where you can see the car park below.

Text © Explorenc (Jean Francis et Delphine Clair)