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Dwight
Peck's personal Web site Winter
2002-2003
hasn't
really begun yet, but here are some preliminary warm-up photos of Grevalla-Dessus
ANXIOUS
to get the snowshoe season under way, Profs Pirri and Peck were out for a walk
above Les Paccots in the Préalps, 20 October 2002, when they stumbled upon
this interesting farmhouse at 1387m
A
threatening sort of day, which only serves to highlight Grevalla's fairly stark
beauty. (The dark silhouette effect makes even Dr Pirri look more presentable
as well.) 
Fast-moving
clouds like a movie by that guy who made all the movies about aliens and UFOs
and what not. 
Dr Pirri
takes a quick look round Grevalla-Dessus. (Dessus means the upper one -- there's
also a Grevalla-Dessous, the lower one.) Dr
Pirri contemplates his future at the Upper Grevalla farm, and then continues his
hike towards Lys. 
Later
to stand glaring at Dent de Lys from a little col (1560m) near the Col de Lys. 
Looking
up at the Col de Lys (1783m), which leads over and down towards Montbovon in the
Montbovon-Gruyères valley of the Sarine river. Prof Pirri marched on up
there to have a good look round down the other side, but Prof Peck was having
a bad-knee day and had to settle in halfway up with his tomato and mozzarella
sandwiches and wait for Dr Pirri to return with embroidered tales of the view. 
Le
Moléson, with the ski restaurant on the far end of it, overlooking Gruyères
down the far side. 
Looking
towards Leysin: the Cap au Moine (1941m) on the left, and the Col de Soladier
(1576m) on the ridgeline right of centre. Les Dents du Midi are on the skyline. 
A
last look at Dent de Lys 
The
cute farm at Le Berry, time to go home. 
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 27 May 2003, revised 4 April 2008.
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