Dwight
Peck's low-res photosDwight
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.]
This is a collection of low-res photos of farms and other isolated buildings in the Swiss Jura mountains during the winter season. Most of these farms are owned communally, in some sense, by the villages lower down the mountain along Lac Léman (Lake Geneva) in Switzerland and are occupied during the summer months for dairy pasturage.
They are often very beautiful in the summer, especially with all those big cow things all about, but in winter these buildings, totally abandoned throughout the winter, can be magical.
A Southwest to Northeast General Index
| [1.] NE from the Col de la Givrine | [2.] Above Bassins & Le Vaud | [3.] Above Marchissey& Longirod | [4.] SW of Col du Marchairuz |
 L'Arzière | Le
Bassine | Les
Echadex | Chalet
à Roch Dessus |
| La
Borsatte | Le
Bugnonet | Les
Frasses | Joux
de Bière |
| Les
Coppettes | La
Chaumette | La
Goncerue | Lande
Dessus |
| Le
Couchant | Les
Chenevières | La
Grillette | La
Neuve |
| Fruitières
de Nyon | Le
Crot | Mont
Bally | Pré
aux Veaux |
| La
Genolière | La
Dunanche | La
Palud | Rionde
Dessous |
| La
Givrine | Les
Frasses | Perroude
de Marchissy | Rionde
Dessus |
| Grande
Enne | Mondion | Petit
Prés de Rolle | Sèche
de Gimel |
| Haut
Mont | Perroude
du Vaud | Prés
de Joux | Sèche
des Amburnex |
| Pré
du Four | Les
Pralets | Pré
de Rolle |
Other |
| Le
Sollier | Le
Planet | La
Pouilleuse | Chalet
de la Dôle |
| La
Trélasse, La Pile Dessus | Tearoom
de la Plage |
| [5.] NE of Col du Marchairuz | . . . and W of Mont Tendre | [6.] S and SW of Mont Tendre | |
| Chalet
de Yens | Mont
de Bière Devant | La
Correntine (Mondise) | Pré
d'Aubonne |
| Chalet
des Combes | La
Perrause | Druchaux,
chamois | Pré
de Ballens |
| Grandes
Chaumilles | Petites
Chaumilles | L'Eparçillon
(the well) | Pré
de St-Livres |
| Grands
Crosets Dessus | Pré
de Bière | La
Foirausaz | NE
of Mont Tendre |
| Mont
de Bière | La
Racine & nearby | Grand
Cunay | Chalet
du Mont Tendre |
| Mont
de Bière Derrière | Petit
Cunay | N
of Mont Tendre | |
| Les
Croisettes |
The large numbers refer to the areas indicated in the tables above. The blue dot is where Mr Peck lives, the green dot, where he works.
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21 February 2001, revised 5 February 2008.
