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 Dwight
Peck's low-res photos
Farms
of the Jura in winter
[The
Jura mountains run in a southwest-northeast direction along the border between
France and Switzerland, from Geneva (Genève) to Basel (Bâle), holding at about
1300-1400 meters altitude (4350-4500 feet), and peaking in the range of 1650 meters
(5450 feet). These photos of high alpage farms in winter are mainly from the southwestern
end of that range, between the cities of Geneva and Vallorbe.]
Grands
Crosets Dessus
At
1473 meters on the cross-country ski trail that runs some 18 kilometers between
the Col de Mollendruz and the Col du Marchairuz, Grands
Crosets Dessus, or Upper Grands Croset, is part of a complex of
pastures and farm buildings that includes Grands Crosets Dessous (Lower G. C.) a kilometer NW down the hill, and Petit Croset 1.5 kilometers to the north.
Former
Academic Dean J. J. Pirri approaching Grands Crosets on 9 March 2002, with the
Grand Cunay peeking over from behind. 
His hiking
companions D. Peck and L. Durham are interrupted at Grands Crosets, March 2002,
arguing over who's forgotten the tomato and mozzarella sandwiches. 
Dr Pirri
surveys the end of the Grands Crosets farm building judiciously, noting that the
SOS emergency telephone that used to be placed in the shed on the near end seems
suddenly to be missing. 
Hikers
passing by Les Grands Crosets Dessus on their way to lunch, impatiently. 
Hikers
near Les Grands Crosets Dessus, March 2002, searching all about in desperation
seeking the missing tomato and mozzarella sandwiches. {Hee hee. Burp.} 
The
farm building at Grands Crosets Dessus seen from the picnic spot, just after the
narrator was compelled by main force to surrender those few portions of the tomato
and mozzarella sandwiches with virgin olive oil still, as yet, unconsumed.
From
the Carte National de la Suisse, 25,000 scale: 1221, Le Sentier. The
farm of Grands Crosets Dessus is at the purple sort of dot.
The farm of Grandes
Chaumilles is the reddish dot.
The Refuge of Bois Carré is the blue
dot.
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 10 March 2001, resized 10 June
2007.
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