La Grande Tête de l’Obiou

Description

An ascent reserved for experienced hikers, in steep and sometimes aerial terrain, which gives access to a spectacular mountain spectacle. Supervision is recommended.

Parking: Departure Col de la Samblue, Pellafol - Shortly before the Col des Faïsses, take one end of the private, motorable forest track which climbs from Les Payas, a hamlet of Pellafol, a stone's throw from Corps.

Journey :
After about a hundred meters on the track, go up to the right and cut through the fields to reach the Col des Faïsses.
From there, follow the route in the direction of Obiou to the bottom of the Vallon, a narrow rock ledge after which you descend slightly towards the mountain pastures.

The path then passes under large screes and then describes an arc of a circle to the “big climb”: a very steep and long slope, which uses the strata of the rock as a staircase.
At the end, we have to help each other with our hands as the slope becomes steep. Be careful and watch out for falling rocks on the following ones!

You reach the Obiou pass, above which you have to cross a scree again towards the summit.

The path then walks to the left, crosses the steps in very straightened steps at the edge of the void (passage of the tie), descends a little then crosses to the foot of the easy summit slope of the South-West face that we climb back up. .

The descent follows the same route, beware of the steep slope.