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 Dwight Peck's personal website
Holes of the Jura
The Winter
Sport for all members of the family
(except the small ones)
The Swiss Jura
is made largely of karst limestone and in many places has washed
out in dark holes and chimneys small, medium-sized, and frequently
gigantic. There's great sport to be had in seeking them out in the
snow, darting up close for a snapshot, and backpedaling frantically,
giggling in triumph.
Since
the Dawn of the Century, we've been stumbling all about in the forests
of the Jura on snowshoes, looking for these things and trying to
talk Dr Joe into plummeting down into some of them and waving
cheerily back up at us for the perfect photograph. Our luck is holding
so far.
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Scientific
and philosophical introduction |
The
lads resisting gravity as best they can, January 2002 |
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Bedsprings
to keep the cows out, Creux d'Enfer, February 2002 |
Dr
Joe surveying the depths near Grand Cunay, February 2002 |
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Dr
Joe and hors de serie holes of spring 2002 |
Dr
Joe and a new crop of Jura holes, spring 2003 |
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Dr
Joe achieving penetration, February 2004 |
Kristin
scrambling back out again, April 2004 |
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Kristin
measuring the depth of a near miss, Dec. 2005 |
Dr
Joe peering into the Underworld, January 2006 |
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Holes
in the forest of Grand Rolat, spring 2007 |
The
Creux d'Enfer near Grand Cunay, June 2008 |
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| Autumn
hikes, 2011 |
Winter 2012-2013 |
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| Winter 2013-2014 |
Revisiting old favorites, 10 June 2018 |
Very
Big Holes in the Jura
Holes
of the Jura |
Introduction
and scientific background |
Drs
Pirri and Peck falling into small holes |
The
search for more holes, Swiss Jura, spring 2002 |
The
search for more holes: Grand Cunay, a real biggy |
The
search for more holes 2002 & hors de série
holes |
Some
Jura holes try to swallow Dr Pirri, spring 2003 |
Limestone
holes yawning before us, winter 2003-4 |
A
few extremely interesting holes, winter/spring
2006 |
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hole in the forest of Grande Rolat, spring 2007 |
The
Creux d'Enfer near Grand Cunay, June 2008 |
| Autumn
2011 |
Winter 2012-13 |
Winter 2013-14 |
Very
big holes: St George, Pré d'Aubonne, St-Livres, Petit
Cunay, Grand Cunay, Chenuz, Grottes de Vallorbe, Naye |
Dr
Joe on the point of disappearing into a lovely great hole
in the forest of Grande Rolat,
February 2005.
The Grottes de Naye
And the famous Grottes de Vallorbe
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 25 January 2002,
last revised 10 June 2018.
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