Col du Mollendruz

The Jura mountains run down part of the border of France and Switzerland, they form the watershed of, and divide, the Rhine and Rhone rivers. The word Jura is old from Celtic roots and means forest so you have the forest mountains. Another interesting thing about them is they control our weather in the plateau area a bit, air tends to condense on the Jura giving us a blanket of fog in the plateua region. Some of these photo's show this really neatly with a sea of fog between the Jura the main alpine chain.

Col du Mollendruz is a nordic ski area near the Lac du Joux which was frozen as I drove past this morning. Because views were going to be so good I took a long loipe along the ridge to enjoy the views.

I probably got more photo's today than I can use really, so this is a tiny selection.

Fab photos......in my fantasy world (which I frequently visit) this is where I live! :D

Stunning pictures, Ise, thanks for posting them.

G

Lovely pics, do you mind if I grab some of them to add to my screensaver please?

Cheers.

FQ

Salski wrote:Fab photos......in my fantasy world (which I frequently visit) this is where I live! :D

This is where I used to live! Well, at the feet of the Jura... and it is stunning. I miss it. :cry:

IIRC Lac de Joux is where we once went cycling - on the lake one February. One of the local village shops had welded up some simple frames, bolted a mountain bike on either end and you could hire the resulting 2-seat contraption to ride on the ice. Bizarre and brilliant.

Super photos Ise. Very evocative. :thumbup: Love the shots over the Geneva fog to the Alps beyond. The day I left, I drove up to Col de la Faucille and stopped to catch that view; fog and all. 8)

Far Queue wrote:Lovely pics, do you mind if I grab some of them to add to my screensaver please?

Cheers.

FQ

it's fine, they're under a creative commons license which allows any non-commercial re-use like that, it just prevents re-sale or use where rights are assumed over the material like some of those photo hosting sites.

Certainly it's been some nice weather over that way this week, I wanted to go over the weekend but it'll probably be raquettes as Mrs Ise isn't happy to nordic ski with me :cry: and more practically her skis are at the chalet :)

Superb pics Ise
Have not been to Lac joux area,apart to see Jura Parc, will def go there
as only 20 mins away.
Goff

goff wrote:Superb pics Ise
Have not been to Lac joux area,apart to see Jura Parc, will def go there
as only 20 mins away.
Goff

An obvious excursion from here would be to go the other way along to Mont Tendre which is the highest peak in the Swiss Jura of course. Somewhere around 20km or more from col de Mollendruz.