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 Dwight
Peck's personal Web site
Winter
2003-2004
wonderful
wintry fun in the country the neo-cons have so far overlooked
A
visit for the Christmas season {1}
You
may not find this tangibly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a
good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught
up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.
Right
off the airplane, 23 December 2003, and up we go with a nice hike near the Chaumette
meadow above Bassins. Now for something more challenging.
The
Seche de Gimel in the forest of Grande Rolat, Christmas Eve 2003
Whoops,
snowshoes going the wrong way in the forest 
Kristin
sorting out the snowshoe issues on Christmas Eve 
Kristin
out of the forest and ready to view the Couverte
de Seche de Gimel in the Swiss Jura 
There
it is, Christmas Eve 2003 
Kristin
in Switzerland on a sunny 24 December 2003,
as far from fellow-Wisconsinian Tommy Thompson as it's reasonably possible to
get. 
The
protected area, with La Dôle in the way-distant background
Christmas
Day, 25 December 2003: La Dunanche above Bassins 
Kristin
snowshoeing under a tree 
Kristin
snowshoeing over a tree These
unfortunate trees were horizontalized by Ouragan Lothar, the hurricane that hit
Europe on Boxing Day 26 December 1999, a premonition of things to come. 
Back
to La Chaumette in the afterhours It's
time for a lot of Christmas oysters in Bassins 
Right,
Christmas oysters gone. Now, the Christmas lichees.
26
December 2003: A brisk march up by the Col du Marchairuz
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Not
one to follow a marked trail if there's a way to go without one, Kristin celebrates
Boxing Day, 26 December 2004, by re-adjusting her snowshoes in the forest southwest
of the Col du Marchairuz. 
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"Pesky
photographers." | 
Deep
in the Tolkienian forest 
Skipping
lightly over more of Ouragan Lothar's handiwork in the forest 
"Hi
Mom!" spelt on the snowy ridge just SW of the Col du Marchairuz. 
Kristin
at dusk, 26 December 2003, in the era of Global Warming.
Twenty
minutes spent spelling out "Hi Mom" well after Happy Hour began. 
A
little mis-step on the way back to Marchairuz on Boxing Day.
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