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Dwight
Peck's personal Web site
Holes of the Jura
The Winter
Sport for all members of the family
(except the small ones)
The Swiss Jura
is made largely of karst limestone and in many places has washed
out in dark holes and chimneys small, medium-sized, and frequently
gigantic. There's great sport to be had in seeking them out in the
snow, darting up close for a snapshot, and backpedaling frantically,
giggling in triumph.
Since
the Dawn of the Century, we've been stumbling all about in the forests
of the Jura on snowshoes, looking for these things and trying to
talk Dr Pirri into plummeting down into some of them and waving
cheerily back up at us for the perfect photograph. Our luck is holding
so far.

Very
Big Holes in the Jura

Dr
Pirri on the point of disappearing into a lovely great hole
in the forest of Grande Rolat,
February 2005.
Feedback
and suggestions are welcome if positive, resented if negative, .
All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 25 January 2002,
revised 19 March 2012.
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