Hike to Saint-Fort from Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne

For what work: a novel by Jack London which initiates you into a quest for freedom and the absolute and appeals to sensations, memory and instinct.

The guidebook the Mayenne of sunken roads offers you to complete a 13.5 km loop route in 3 hours and 50 minutes marked by the Mil’Pat and carrying the number 4. The theme is the crossing of Saint-Fort and the hilly outskirts south of Château-Gontier, the crossing of a quiet countryside until entering and skirting the forest of Valles which is nothing more than a large wood. In the Angevin lap in the Middle Ages, Gontier and the lords who succeeded him constantly dismembered the gigantic original forest to increase agricultural production and earn income. The names of the farms encountered end in –ière, attesting to the 12th century, such as la Pinaudière, la Coquinière, la Houdmonnnière, which give surnames that are still very present today. As the city fades away, your path leads to a universe of cultivated fields alternated with meadows and punctuated by groves and water points. With 68% of bocage paths, enough to benefit from shade in this period of high heat on the eve of summer, which is more than ever on its way.


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