Dwight Peck's farm photos

Farms of the Jura in winter

The Jura mountains run in a southwest-northeast direction along the border between France and Switzerland, from Geneva (Genève) to Basel (Bâle), holding at about 1300-1400 meters altitude (4350-4500 feet), and peaking in the range of 1650 meters (5450 feet). These photos of high alpage farms in winter are mainly from the southwestern end of that range, between the cities of Geneva and Vallorbe.

This is a collection of low-res photos of farms and other isolated buildings in the Swiss Jura mountains during the winter season. Most of these farms are owned communally, in some sense, by the villages lower down the mountain along Lac Léman (Lake Geneva) in Switzerland and are occupied during the summer months for dairy pasturage.

They are often very beautiful in the summer, especially with all those big cow things all over the place, but in winter these buildings, abandoned throughout the winter, can be magical.

A Southwest to Northeast General Index

[1.] NE from the Col de la Givrine	[2.] Above Bassins & Le Vaud	[3.] Above Marchissy& Longirod	[4.] SW of  Col du Marchairuz
L'Arzière	La Bassine	Les Echadex	La Cerniat
La Borsatte	Le Bugnonet	Les Frasses	Le Cerney
Les Coppettes	La Chaumette	La Goncerue	Chalet à Roch Dessus
Le Couchant	Les Chenevières	La Grillette	Chalet de la Croix
Fruitières de Nyon	Le Crot	Mont Bally	Chalet Neuf
La Genolière	La Dunanche	La Palud	Joux de Bière
La Givrine	Les Frasses	Perroude de Marchissy	Lande Dessus
Grande Enne	Mondion	Petit Pré de Rolle	La Neuve
Haut Mont	Perroude du Vaud	Prés de Joux	Pré aux Veaux
Pré du Four	Les Pralets	Pré de Rolle	Rionde Dessous
Le Sollier	Le Planet	La Pouilleuse	Rionde Dessus
La Trélasse, La Pile			Sèche de Gimel
			Sèche des Amburnex

[5.] NE of  Col du Marchairuz	. . . and W of Mont Tendre	[6.] S and SW of  Mont Tendre
Chalet de Yens	Mont de Bière Derrière	La Correntine	Pré d'Aubonne
Chalet des Combes	Mont de Bière Devant	Druchaux, chamois	Pré de Ballens
Grandes Chaumilles	La Perrause	L'Eparçillon (the well)	Pré de St-Livres
Grands Crosets Dessus	Petites Chaumilles	La Foirausaz	NE of Mont Tendre
Meylande-Dessus	Pré de Bière	Grand Cunay	Chalet du Mont Tendre
Mont de Bière	La Racine & nearby	Petit Cunay	N of Mont Tendre
			Les Croisettes
			[7.] Above Arzier
			Les Agozats
			Les Bioles
			La Conriéry
			Mont Roux
			Le Vuarne
			Pré Nouveau
			Other
			Chalet de la Dôle
			Tearoom de la Plage

The large numbers refer to the areas indicated in the tables above. The blue dot is where Mr Peck used to live, the green dot, where he worked.

The Col du Marchairuz

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Farms of the Jura in winter

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