We explored another section of the Jura mountains today, this time catching the trusty red mountain train to St Cergue. St Cergue lies 1000m up in the Jura and is yet another Swiss town with great summer hiking and winter skiing.
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| The Sunday market in St Cergue |
This time we followed the Chemin de la Dôle trail. La Dôle is the second highest peak in the Swiss Jura (after
Mont Tendre) at 1677m. On the summit there is the famous "golf ball", a gigantic white ball containing aviation radar.
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| Beautiful trails |
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| Our goal: La Dôle summit |
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| Spectacular scenery |
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| View over Lake Geneva and the French Alps |
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| Daniel on the summit with the big white ball |
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| The patchwork of fields between the Jura and Lake Geneva |
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| Looking west along the Jura |
Apparently Goethe summited La Dôle in 1779 on his way to Geneva and is quoted as saying:"There are no words to describe the grandeur and the beauty of this spectacle." He was right!
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