Dwight Peck's personal website
Winter
2003-2004
wonderful
wintry fun in the country the neo-cons have so far overlooked
A
visit for the Christmas season {3}
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.
1
January 2004: Grand Fuey and the forest of Bois de la Sauge ![](../pictures/jura/jura-hole-g05.jpg)
Darting
up through the forest of Grand Fuey, Kristin stumbles upon a large limestone hole
in the forest floor.
The
narrator wends a wily way up through the Bois de la Sauge, unaware that tree limbs
are entangled in the backpack.
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c02.jpg)
Not
far from Mont de Bière Devant, time for snowshoes on.
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c03.jpg)
A short cut
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c04.jpg)
Kristin,
Bois de la Sauge
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c03bis.jpg)
Darkness falling
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c05.jpg)
Kristin,
frosty.
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c06.jpg)
Snowflake
The
Snowshoe Zombie approaches
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c08.jpg)
Go
away, Snowshoe Zombie!
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c09.jpg)
.
. . or help me up.
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c09bis.jpg)
Let's go home then.
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c09ter.jpg)
You make dinner.
2
January 2004: Monts de Bière, Swiss Jura
![](../pictures/win/winter2003z02-01.jpg)
An early obstacle to success
![](../pictures/win/winter2003z02-02.jpg)
-- Easy game
![](../pictures/win/winter2003z02-03.jpg)
Cowshed on Mont de Bière
![](../pictures/mts-jura/mbdevant-a08.jpg)
Kristin
finessing her way down from Mont de Bière, 2 January 2004, en route to
Mont de Bière Devant.
![](../pictures/mts-jura/mbdevant-a08-bis.jpg)
The
easy way over the stone wall.
![](../pictures/win/winter2003z02-04.jpg)
Voilà
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c12.jpg)
Forest
scenes along the way
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c13.jpg)
![](../pictures/mts-jura/mbdevant-a14.jpg)
The
farm near the top of Mont de Bière Devant, 2 January 2004
![](../pictures/mts-jura/mbdevant-a14bis.jpg)
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c15-bis.jpg)
Toward
the flag pole
![](../pictures/mts-jura/mbdevant-a11.jpg)
Some
doubt about the best way forward.
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c15.jpg)
Kristin
summiting in January 2004
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c15-ter.jpg)
![](../pictures/win/winter2003-4c18.jpg)
Kristin
with the farm behind, 2 January 2004
![](../pictures/mts-jura/mbdevant-a09.jpg)
![](../pictures/win/winter2003z02-06.jpg)
Circling back by way of Mont de Bière Derrière
![](../pictures/win/winter2003z02-07.jpg)
![](../pictures/win/winter2003z02-08.jpg)
Nice day
![Winter 2003-4](../pictures/buttons/homeW2003-4.gif)
![](../pictures/maps/mont-biere-devant2013.jpg)
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Feedback
and suggestions are welcome if positive, resented if negative, .
All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 7 April 2004, revised 1 October 2008, 25 October 2014.
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