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.]

La Sèche des Amburnex

La Sèche des Amburnex lies at 1297m in a closed combe between the main Combe des Amburnex to the southeast and the Jura ridgeline to the northwest. 10 February 2008, the year with almost no snow.

As dedicated Jura farm photo collectors, we're circling round the building now, looking for just the right angles and sunlight.

So this really is a P5, after all.

I have not the slightest notion what "P5" on a farm building might mean, but we'll file this one under "P5" anyway, to be safe. "P5" presumably has some secret meaning, but it's probably Masonic and needn't concern us here.

14 March 2007, a sunless day

5 April 2009

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

The trailhead is at the red dot, the farm of Sèche des Amburnex is at the bottom. In the forest of Grande Rolat, there be dragons.

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Farms of the Jura in winter