Farms of the Jura in winter

Dwight Peck's farm photos

Winter 2007-2008

Views of the Couvert de la Sèche de Gimel

You may not find this terribly 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.

Couvert de la Sèche de Gimel in the Jura Farms series

18 November 2007, there's nothing much that needs to be done urgently, so we'll go out and make some photos of the Couvert de la Sèche de Gimel. The people in the parking lot are laying out some giant inflatable balloons and strapping helmets on, I don't know why.

One is avoiding the crowd on the path by bushwhacking through the forest for a while.

We neglected to bring snowshoes today, so it's slow going through the limestone jumble.

Descending from the refuge of Joratte, there's the Couvert de la Sèche de Gimel (1318m)

The Sèche de Gimel looking south across the protected nature area towards the Sèche des Amburnex. The crosscounty ski-du-fond tracks, later in the season, will be laid along the snow horizon just before that far treeline.

Looking southwestward

The view from the northeast of the couvert

from SwitzerlandMobility (http://map.schweizmobil.ch/?lang=en)

Farms of the Jura in winter

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