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Near La Bassine, 30 April 2017
We're starting up a long skinny combe parallel to the road at the top of the Route des Montagnes.
The idea is to look again for an interesting cave stuck up on the rock walls of the combe, somewhere along here.
It's been some years since we've visited here, but surely it's still right where it's always been. Wherever that is.
Not yet.
Up to another level. It can't be far.
Bingo
A mighty jigsaw puzzle piece, right out of the roof
Further explorations for another day, perhaps
We resume our walk.
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The farm of La Bassine from the southeast; the Combe des Amburnex -Marchairuz road is on the far side.
An anthill hung up on the barbed-wire
A typical mess left by a pre-dawn party of wild boars (sangliers)
Mont Sâla in a vile rain, 7 May 2017
-- There's still time to rethink this.
At the top of the Route des Montagnes (1262m) from Bassins up to La Bassine and the road to Marchairuz.
Wet feet
Up the Bois de la Bassine through the notch path towards the Combe des Begnines
Dripping forests
The winter's damage
At the top of the path (1400m) entering the Combe des Begnines
Up a little combe southwest of the Combe des Begnines
Approaching Mont Sâla's northern end
The beginning of the path up to the summit cross
Persistence
The last bit to the top
Relaxing by the Mont Sâla summit cross (1510m)
Very wet
A little hole in the hillside, due north of the cross
Further explorations for another day, perhaps
The "Cabane des Electriciens (Commune du Chenit)" at 1471m, just northwest of the summit
Sinkholes all along the Combe des Begnines
Muddily passing the farm of Le Couchant, 1443m
Looking northeastward along the Combe des Begnines
The signpost where the notch path starts down
The farm of Les Begnines (1465m), the middle one of the three in the 2.5km long Combe des Begnines
But we're going somewhere else today
We're walking northeastward between the Combe des Begnines and the parallel long line of cliffs and steep forests above the Combe des Amburnex.
A vestigial path that unfortunately goes nowhere. There are two official ways and one known but unofficial way down from the Combe des Begnines, but we're looking for another still undiscovered.
The end of that path, overlooking the forest below
A potential wet way down that we will not take
Continuing our search for a pleasant way down
Nothing's working out so far. We'll give it up until next time.
Out onto the Combe des Begnines again -- an impediment
But hurdles exist to be got over.
Progressing slowly
In the Combe des Begnines halfway along between the second and third chalets
The third chalet walking northeastward, the Petite Chaux, 1410m
Nearing the northeastern end of the Combe des Begnines
Sinkholes
Down the second of the signposted paths to the ground floor
Below the line of steep forest, now at 1300m, we're returning southward towards the farm of Rionde Dessus, at 1326m on the little hilltop near the left-centre of the photo.
Passing the farm of La Bassine on the Amburnex road
The little carpark at the top of the Route des Montagnes, whence we began.
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