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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.]
Petites
Chaumilles
Descending
upon Petites Chaumilles farm (1405m) from the little hilltop just above, at 1430m,
which looks down northwestward into the Vallée de Joux and the frontier
with France on the far side of that. 20 January 2002. 
Prof.
L. Durham approaches the Petites Chaumilles farm moving southward, 20 January
2002, with the famous Col du Marchairuz visible above the left end of the building. Petites
Chaumilles lies only about 1.5 kilometres northeast of the main Swiss road from
Lake Geneva into the southwest end of the Vallée de Joux, over the Col
du Marchairuz and down to the town of Le Brassus. Until the early 1990s that road
was not kept open in winter, and residents of the towns around the Lac du Joux,
to leave their valley, had either to go through France to descend upon Geneva,
or over the Col du Mollendruz at the northern end of the valley, to descend towards
Yverdon, or due north to Vallorbe. Nowadays the Marchairuz road is open all year
round, and brilliant non-commercial cross-country areas are maintained all through
the combes between the Jura ridgelines. 
Seen
from the front, similarly on 20 January 2002. 
Departing
the farm, also on 20 January 2002, looking back southwestward towards the sun.
Kristin
at the farm of Petites Chaumilles, 27 February 2005 
27
February 2005
From
the Carte National de la Suisse, 25,000 scale: 1221, Le Sentier
The
blue dot indicates Petites Chaumilles farm.
The yellow dot is the Grande
Chaumilles.
The orange dot shows the location of La Perrause farm
across the flat of "La Plateforme".
The green dot shows the farm
at Pré de Denens. [photo page withdrawn]
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 9 February 2002, revised 4 October 2008.
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