Dwight Peck's personal website
La
Dôle
in
all seasons A
few more photos of La Dôle, with its Cointrin aeroport
radar facilities on top, for those who just can't get enough of them.

La Dôle (1677 meters)
and its fancy radar stuff, looking past Poęle Chaud from the Fin Château, February
2000. That was page 1.

Here
are some of the summit Cointrin (Geneva) aeroport installations, 9 November 2003.
The little thing on the left is the top station of a lift that hauls supplies
and what not up from a base station near the Châlet de la Dôle at
the foot of the mountain.

Andrea
Dante Guillaume approaching the summit stuff, November 2003.

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Dante
(André), left, and Lisa, right, pose with the narrator (nice orange headband).
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April 2004, with chamois

Dr
Pirri marching up to La Dôle from the wrong direction, that is, from the
west, out of the limestone forest of Les Léseneys, 21 May 2006

Radar
looms. From the southwest, May 2006

Dr Pirri awaiting the Rapture

The
airport radar installations at the summit, 1677m, 21 May 2006

The
view eastward to the far end of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman), with the city
of Lausanne on the left

The
Dôle sub-peak of La Barillette, with its telecommunications tower, and the
city of Lausanne beyond

The
Lake of Geneva, with the Savoie Alps on the horizon and the little lake of Divonne,
France, just below.

The
Chalet de la Dôle (1439m), 230 vertical meters below us to the east

The
summit facilities and pylon. None of the summit facilities are open to the public
-- it's all airport technical stuff. It was staffed throughout the winter until
a few years ago, but now it's totally robotified, at least in the winter season.

The
majestic city of Nyon on this side of the lake, and the medieval town of Yvoire
in France on the far side

Summit
stuff in May 2006. The shed on the left is the top station of a supply cable transport.

The
Pointe de Poêle Chaud (1628m) just next door

from SwitzerlandMobility (http://map.schweizmobil.ch/?lang=en)

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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 28 February 2004, revised 26 November 2013.
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