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 Dwight Peck's personal website
Mont
d'Or
near
Leysin, Switzerland
Mont
d'Or (2175m) dominates the head of the valley of Ormont-Dessous, looking
up from the Castle of Aigle in the Rhône valley, with the village of Le
Sepey directly below, Leysin and its mountains circling off to the left, and Pic
Chaussy, Les Diablerets, and Le Chamossaire circling round to the right.
Mont
d'Or from Leysin village, January 2005.
Here's
Mont d'Or in the center in the early evening, taken from the Tour de Famelon,
with the range of Gros Van stretching off left to the northeast. The normal hiking
trail winds up the ridge in the center, above those avalanche fractures to the
right, from the Pierre de Moëllé farm and military sentry point for
the army training grounds down off to the left in the valley of Hongrin.
The
whole range, with Gros Van on the left and Mont d'Or on the right, seen from Aveneyre
to the northwest, July 2006.
Another
view of Mont d'Or extending towards Gros Van to the northeast, 1988, from Rochers
de la Latte (Mr Berman and Mr Malone obscuring the foreground).
Here's
Mont d'Or in the background, from the Rochers de la Latte on back side of Tour
de Famelon, Mark Malone and the narrator
smiling coyly in February 1988 with the massif of Les Diablerets on the right
horizon.
Marlowe
Peck's first ascent of Mont d'Or, sua aetatis 8 months, 1 August 1985,
after having helped some local enthusiasts carry logs to the top for the traditional
Swiss National Day mountaintop bonfires.
Marlowe's
glad to be here, even with mismatched socks
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Narrator
and friend Marta setting out for the upper ridge of Mont d'Or, 2 February 1991
Hiking
companion Marta preparing to assault the ridge to Mont d'Or.
Hikers
coming back down from the top, about halfway down the ridge, 2 February 1991,
Pierre du Moëllé below and off to the right, Leysin 8km off to the
left.
Pierre
du Moëllé (left), the pass at 1661m between the valley of Ormont-Dessous
and the Hongrin down to the right (one of the largest military training grounds
in Switzerland), with its big dam and lake. It's more or less hollow inside, those
holes in the rock are gun ports. The café on the right caters mainly to
soldiers in some seasons, hikers in others, and nobody in winter.
The
col at Pierre du Moëllé from up on Mont d'Or, the slope up to Rochers
de la Latte on the far side.
from SwitzerlandMobility (http://map.schweizmobil.ch/?lang=en)
Mont
d'Or (summit far left) is worth a visit in any season.
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 14 October 2002, revised 9 February
2008, 17 March 2014.
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