Mont de Bière Devant

Dwight Peck's personal website

Winter 2005-2006

Short breaks from poring over the newspapers as the Bushies implode

You may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.

Kristin's Christmas visit and Mont de Bière Devant in invigorating weather

There's no use just sitting round watching the telly through the holidays, as there's nothing much good on anymore anyway, and even the BBC news is sometimes not all that much fun these days.

Mont de Bière Devant, 2 January 2006

This is the parking at the Sentier du Sapin à Simeon (1330m) near the Col du Marchairuz, 2 January 2006, looking out over the La Côte region of the Canton du Vaud and Lake Geneva. Lots of lovely new snow on a very cold day.

Kristin bundling up warm. We're planning to wander lonely as a cloud, maybe out across the long meadow to the northeast eventually to Mont de Bière Devant, or maybe somewhere else instead. The Sentier is an enjoyable educational path out over the meadows with signs along the way indicating facts about the rural life here, like how many acres of meadow it takes to feed one cow for a year, how much milk they can be expected to produce, how much cheese that will make, what kinds of trees and flowers can be seen roundabout, etc. All that educational stuff is way down under the snow now, of course.

A little ways out from the carpark, we're gazing back at another couple gazing at the view and preparing to be beamed up Scottie.

A little hut half the way along the meadow. It was here that, many years ago, Marlowe Peck invented the sport of Alpine Rollerskating, which involved Dad pulling her with a climbing rope over the meadows on her roller skates.