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.]

Mont de Bière

Communal pastures and a three-sided stone hut 2 kilometres northeast of the Col du Marchairuz, at 1530 meters altitude, only about 400 meters east of the Chemin des Crêtes transjurassien hiking trail between the Col du Marchairuz and the Col du Mollendruz.

From the ridge just SW, 1530m, on a sunny 5 January 2003.

15 January 2006

Kristin at the shed on Mont de Bière, 2 January 2004

Viewed near sundown on a stormy day, 7 March 2004.

From the Carte National de la Suisse, 25,000 scale: 1241,  Marchairuz

The green dot indicates Mont de Bière, the red one shows Mont de Bière Devant; the blue dot shows the place between the two ridges where Marlowe Peck went camping in December 1994.

Early November 2007

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Farms of the Jura in winter