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La Dôle
The Jura's answer to the Alps
Having already celebrated beautiful Mont Tendre, one of the two really nice peaks in the southwestern Jura mountains near Geneva, we turn now to La Dôle, with its aeroport radar facilities on top.
La Dôle (1677m) from the Pointe de Poêle Chaud, 2 April 2006
La Dôle and its fancy radar stuff, looking past Pointe de Poęle Chaud from the Fin Château, February 2000.
From Pointe de Poêle Chaud, April 2006
La Dôle on the right, the Pointe de Poęle Chaud in the center, 30 December 2003.
A chamois guy on a rainy day, May 2002.
Prof. Pirri on the La Vulliette side, a rainy day in May 2002.
May 2004
May 2004
La Dôle on a windy 11 December 2005
From near La Pile Dessus, 24 December 2005
La Dôle with chamois, April 2004
Why is La Dôle, like Mont Tendre, so valued by former Alpine-dwellers in this corner of the world? Answer: Trees. That is to say, NO Trees. Mont Tendre and La Dôle are the only peaks on the southwestern end of the Swiss Jura Mountains that stick out of the tree line! Like La Chasseral and the Weissenberg in the northern Jura, it's a little mountain that -- in the right light, in the right weather -- sometimes feels like a mountain.
From the Carte National de la Suisse, 50,000 scale: 260, St.-Cergue.
The frontier of France to the south and west is marked by +++++++.
La Dôle in pix Basic La Dôle La Dôle at all seasons La Dôle with cute chamois La Dôle from nearby Poêle Chaude Jura Farms: La Chalet de la Dôle
From the Col de Porte, 2 April 2006
La Dôle from Les Tuffes in France, April 2007
La Dôle, from the top of the Pointe de Fin de Château, 16 March 2003, with Pointe de Poele Chaud intervening
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