We parked south of Beuil by the D28 road next to huge terracotta-coloured boulders and rocks. Our starting point, signpost #69 (1288 m; Pré de Chaudi) was 100 m to the south. Crossing the Cians River 11 years ago posed some problems. Now very little water flew in the river, but there wasn’t a footbridge as shown on the map, just stones.

We ascended in a dense forest along a good path above the Cians Valley, heading south. The direction gradually took an easterly direction and we reached clearings, Alpine meadows and ruined houses. The path markings were fading and some grassy stretches were overgrown. We now headed north to signpost #74 at Giarons (1658 m) with more ruins and apparently ancient farming and pasture land.

We forked south, and were mostly above the tree line. There were yellow markings. At 1800 m elevation, at a crossroads, we unintentionally took the right hand path, climbed to a larch wood under a hill. This path had fading old markings as well but as the path ended we climbed to our intended itinerary and continued to signpost #76. We forked left and climbed to Tête de Giarons. The summit offering a nice panorama was marked with a small iron cross and a stick. It was surrounded by a vast summit plateau.

On the way back, we took a shortcut from the summit directly to the trail used earlier then followed it back to our starting point.