Dwight Peck's personal website
Alison
B. Peck
Swiss
visit, late April 2008
Alison
is presently based in Santiago, Chile, but visits the old dad in Switzerland whenever
she's in the neighborhood . . .
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.
. . for as many Swiss national dishes as can be got down in a few days and a lot
of hiking in the countryside roundabout. Late April 2008.
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La
Foirausaz farm from atop a nearby bluff in the forest
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Down
through smooshy snow in the forest
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Sometimes
VERY smooshy snow
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La
Foirausaz as we pass by it
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Farther
up the valley, the Pré de St-Livres farm
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Alison
near the meadows of St-Livres
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About
half snow these days, and half not
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Peeking
down the gouffre. The stair and railing leading down to a little balcony down
the inside have been laid on in recent years.
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The
Gouffre or cavern at the meadow of St-Livres
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Carpet
of spring flowers
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Alison
contemplating cool clouds worth photographing
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Alison
settling for just photographing the old dad instead
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The
old dad photographing Alison macro-photographing defenseless little flowers.
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And
fingers.
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Very
mixed snowshoeing in late April in the Swiss Jura
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The
next day, not far from
the Mondion farm above Bassins, we're fed up with clumping over grass in snowshoes
and choose just to sink knee-deep in the snow on every third step instead.
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Alison
in the forest running with melt-water
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We're
thoroughly lost by this time, but still hopeful.
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The
trail has disappeared, only wet hillsides now, but it's okay.
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Ali's
off tomorrow for Chile by way of Germany, but coming back soon, we hope.
Addendum
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On
this trip to Europe, Alison's come by way of a working spell at the NRAO, the
VLA (Very Large Array) at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory near Socorro,
New Mexico, where she took her Ph.D. a while ago.
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But
here's where she's working now, at the ALMA project in the Atacama mountains of
Chile at 5,000 metres (16,500 feet) above sea level. ALMA stands for Atacama Large
Millimeter Array.
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Alison
and colleagues and one of the new thingies.
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Alison
and a colleague
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Visiting
the nearby Valley of the Moon
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 27 May 2008, revised 19 September 2019.
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