Winter 2001-2002

Dwight Peck's personal website

Winter 2001-2002

A few more holes in Spring 2002

The Winter Sport for all members of the family
(except the small ones)

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.

Dr Joe Pirri, descending from Mont Tendre directly down the centre of the Creux d'Enfer of Druchaux, 30 March 2002 {don't ask why}, comes across a barbed wire fence surrounding a Jura-hole bigger than Albania and deftly slips under it for a closer look.

A couple of hundred meters further on, here's another! Our search for big holes is certainly beginning to pay off. This one has a jerry-rigged rappel-anchor across it, a helping-hand so to speak for those who want to get a much closer look.

Here's a 31 March 2002 photo of the snowfree forest just below the Perroude du Vaud. One strolls along casually, reflecting in a desultory fashion on the intellectual depths to which civilization has fallen, and WAIT! What's that in front of us?

Well, there's a Swiss Jura limestone hole and a half!. In fact, this forest glade has got one of the finest assemblages of interesting holes into deep nowhere to be seen anywhere in the local forests.

Where, in a forest like this, could you safely picnic? You could reach round behind you for your tomato and mozarella sandwich with virgin olive oil and find that it's NOT THERE! Nor are the kids!

Not all Jura limestone holes are vertical. Here's a horizontal one, not far from the "La Bassine turndown", the top of the paved road leading up from the village of Bassins towards the communal farm at Le Bassine (1265m).

This looks so cosy!! . . . it almost makes you wish you were one of those Neolithic chaps, with the game hunting and cave-dwelling and all, never even having heard of Microsoft or Ashcroft!! until you look about you and . . .

calculate that this large bit of limestone ceiling would have whacked you on your Neolithic head even harder than Ashcroft and Rumsfeld ever could in their most colorful dreams.

Hors de série holes, 2002

The search for limestone holes in winter 2001-2002 was over, but Dr Pirri could not be got to stop. So here are just a few more snowless entries in the Grand Catalogue of Holes.

Anybody down there? If you can hear me, throw up your wallet.

Eureka, Prof Pirri has found a big one.This hides in the meadows below the farm of Petit Cunay.

This is something to call home about. If the cell telephone will work.

They never work when you want them to. AND they give you brain cancer.

Whenever Dr Pirri discovers new very deep limestone holes and chimneys, his photographer prays that he'll throw those USA suspenders right on down there amongst the rumsfeldian trolls and ashcroftian gnomes where they belong.

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