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Park in the church car park.
(S/E) Starting point: the metal sculpture monument at the crossroads at the foot of the church.
With your back to the monument and facing the main road, turn left (west) and follow the pedestrian sign.
(1) At the roundabout, continue along the main road towards the village of Damvant (just opposite the Cheval Blanc restaurant).
Note that you must leave the pedestrian route to take the mountain bike route.
(2) Almost at the end of the village, pass a chapel on your right and cross the main road, taking a small uphill road on your left following the Eurotrek mountain bike route sign.
This road quickly becomes a tarmac farm track which passes a wooden building with a horse riding school on your left and then continues through pastures with a gentle slope.
Follow the mountain bike route markings with hedges beginning to line this path, which becomes stony as you continue straight ahead and arrive at a fork in the farm tracks.
(3) Turn right, continuing to follow the Eurotrek mountain bike trail markers, and pass through a hedge that shelters a ditch on either side of the path.
A solar panel on your left indicates that you are entering a wooded area, then the path enters the forest with a few hairpin bends that will gradually take you uphill. Stay on the main path, ignoring a first path on the right in a hairpin bend on the left, then a second path on the right, again in a hairpin bend on the left.
(4) Continue until you reach a path on your left: a Eurotrek mountain bike sign on a metal post indicates the direction to follow as you continue climbing.
At a second fork, another metal post invites you to follow the mountain bike signs on your right (south-west direction).
When you leave the forest and arrive in the pastures, you are close to the large farm of Vacherie Dessous.
(5). Do not follow the Eurotrek mountain bike signposted path to the right, but continue climbing on your left before leaving the pastures 300 metres further on and re-entering the woods.
Follow a winding, unmarked path with a constant gradient, always keeping to the right at each intersection.
You will come to a first metal gate in a pasture, followed by a second one 50 metres further on.
(6) Crossroads of farm tracks near a hut where you will find footpath and mountain bike signs.
Our circular hiking loop will start on the left, but in the meantime, it is worth taking a hundred-metre detour to the right to visit a chapel near a farmhouse.
(7) Vacherie Dessus Chapel. After visiting or taking a break at the inviting tables, retrace your steps.
(6) Continue straight ahead (east) on a flat, grassy path (marked for pedestrians and mountain bikers) that crosses straight across pastures located on a kind of plateau.
(8) Belvedere: at the end of this path, there is a fork to the right near a ditch called "Sur Les roches".
Approach carefully and take a look at a wooded cirque with the Ajoie valley in the background.
The view is limited by the foliage of the trees.
Turn right and continue along the pasture for 500 metres before entering the forest on the left on the path known as "Des Bornes Frontières".
Follow a beautiful forest path from marker 521 to marker 531 before arriving at an intersection of marked footpaths just before leaving the woods.
(9) Turn left towards Chevenez through a fir forest.
After 50 metres, cross perpendicularly onto a path that branches off to the right towards a pasture.
The footpath goes around this pasture on the left, then runs along the fence before descending gently at first and then more steeply.
During the descent into the forest, you will come to a first crossroads at the edge of a cliff, where you should turn right and follow the pedestrian signs.
Note: if you go straight ahead, you will only make a small detour of about 100 metres.
You will arrive at a clearing with a crossroads and a pasture on the left.
Continue straight ahead on a gentle descent until you reach a crossroads with no pedestrian signs.
Ignore the path on the left and continue straight ahead until you reach a signposted intersection, where you should also continue straight ahead (according to the sign) until you reach a gate that leads into fields.
Continue down the winding path through the pastures to a fence near a building, then continue to an intersection.
(10) Turn right, leave the pasture by going through the gate and continue along a farm track to the first houses, still following the pedestrian markings.
(11) At the tarmac road, turn left and descend to the centre of the village, following the footpath signs to arrive at the foot of the church (S/E).
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