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(S/E) Car park at the town hall in Busy, below the church opposite the small football pitch. Walk down towards the cemetery, with your back to the church, following the yellow and blue markings. At the Chemin des Landoz-Stade sign, turn right (Mountain Bike Circuit 57) until you reach the stop sign, where the street meets the D104, then turn right again
(1). Take the first small road on the left, Chemin des Champs Sucray, climbing into the woods and quickly becoming stony.
(2) At a crossroads, take a sharp left turn, following the signs and ignoring the crossings marked with crosses. You will pass a clearing with views on the right of Notre-Dame-du-Mont and the keep of the feudal castle of Montferrand. You will arrive at the first house in Vorges via Rue de Gevrey. Opposite, there are new views of Thoraise Castle and the Doubs Valley.
(3) At the stop sign at the bottom of the street, there is a signpost. If you wish to shorten your walk (loops B and C), turn right towards the Pierre de Vorges (go directly to the paragraph). For the long loop, turn left down Rue de la Riette towards Chemin des Crêtes. There is a lovely view of the Busy valley. You will reach Grande Rue, which you follow to the right for 300 metres towards the village centre, then turn left into Rue de la Fontaine, leaving the Sentier des Crêtes for a while and continuing on the Circuit VTT 57. You will pass a fountain. The path becomes stony and then joins a small tarmac road at a right angle, which you follow to the right for about 50 metres.
(4) Turn left onto the stony path that climbs the hillside. As you enter the woods, you will pass in front of a water tower, then under high-voltage power lines. On the left, there is a viewpoint overlooking the Château de Montferrand.
(5) You will come out on the ridge, opposite a signpost indicating a viewpoint over the Loue valley 200 metres to the right and the ruins of the feudal castle of Chenecey (in winter). Look for a small wooden watchtower located under the high-voltage power lines. Turn your back on the viewpoint and head towards the first pylon to find the ridge path, which you take to the left.
(6) You will reach a viewpoint over the Busy valley and the Doubs valley. Follow the ridge along a well-marked path, accompanied by the pleasant scent of boxwood from the mountains around Besançon. Of course, you will ignore all the paths that descend the hillside, which are marked with crosses to indicate that they are off-limits. Halfway along, a small path a few metres to the right leads to an unsecured viewpoint. Be careful!
(7) You will arrive at a junction of four paths. Descend the hillside via the path on the right, following the yellow and blue markers. You will leave the woods. Opposite a large wooden agricultural shed, you will reach a road which you will follow downhill to the right. Viewpoint over Planoise and the Besançon mountains.
(8) Near the picnic table, at the farmhouse inn, continue downhill to the left towards Vorges. You pass in front of the church and at the stop sign, turn right towards Busy on the D104. You pass Rue de la Fontaine again, then turn left up Rue de la Riette until you reach the signpost indicating the direction of Pierre de Vorges.
(3) Pass the first grassy path on your left. At the next fork, leave the tarmac path on your left and continue straight ahead on a descending gravel path. Follow the yellow and blue markings, continuing downhill until you reach the Pierre de Vorges, a small stone bridge over the stream.
(9) You will come to a well-graveled path. For loop C, turn right to reach the banks of the Doubs, but the Notre-Dame-du-Mont viewpoint is worth the effort of climbing the hill. In this case, climb the path (unmarked) in front of you when you leave the small stone bridge. To be more precise, when you arrive at the Pierre de Vorges, you will have four paths in front of you. Take the third path from the left, the one directly opposite the footbridge. You will be on the VTT 21 mountain bike trail.
(10) You will join the marked trail that climbs up to the chapel. Turn left and you will arrive at the viewpoint, which offers an exceptional view of the Doubs valley and its meanders, the Jura mountains and, in the foreground, the keep of the feudal castle of Montferrand.
(11) Turn back to the first fork, where you turn right, leaving the marked trail and passing through a small gorge. At a marker, ignore the path that branches off perpendicularly to the right (ONF sign No. 3) and continue straight downhill.
(12) Almost at the bottom of the hill, at another small marker, pass between two trees and join a path perpendicular to the previous one, which you follow downhill to the left, guided by the sound of the stream, to return to the Pierre de Vorges. Continue along the stony path to reach the banks of the Doubs.
(13) You will reach the stream-Budapest cycle route and follow the banks, heading to the right.
(14) At the metal barriers and a dead-end sign, turn right towards Busy, leaving the towpath.
(15) At the entrance to the village, in a bend and after a small bridge over the stream, turn right onto the gravel path. You will reach the main street.
(16) Turn right towards the church and the town hall car park (S/E).
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