Leysin / Tour de Famelon
12th October 2006
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Above : Self portrait in the reflective glass of the Kuklos restaurant at Leysin
Leysin is an access point to a small range of gray limestone mountains where glacial erosion has created some cirques. The plan was to get a boost from Leysin at 1315m to the Berneuse at 2035m and take a tour round the “Tours”, the “Tours” being Tour d’Aï, Tour de Mayen and an ascent of the Tour de Famelon before dropping to Pierre du Moëllé and returning to Leysin.
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Above Left: Looking over the Riondaz towards the Mt Blanc massif
Above Right: cloud over the end of Lac Leman and views in the Portes du Soleil
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Above Left: zooming into the Mt Blanc massif
Above Right: looking towards the Tour d’Aï and Tour de Mayen
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Above Left: snow cannon work
Above Right: crossing under La Moëllé
Presumably what every ski station wants for Christmas is snow but they’re all hedging their bets with new cannons, it’s been a boom year for new cannon installations judging from the places I go to.
There’s a path in the centre of those rocks ! It’s not much more obvious when you’re on it, just a steep gully with some fixed chains to descend.
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Above Left: Tour de Famelon
Above Right: Tour de Famelon
Just a short pause for breath on the climb up to the Famelon. The two people making a descent on the right were some of the only people I saw most of the day.
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Above Left: from Tour de Famelon
Above Right: from Tour de Famelon
Some spectacular views up here, in the very far distant on the left you can just see the Jura and in front of La Moléson. On the right image at Chateau d’Oex and Rougemont are visible.
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Above Left: views to Les Diablerets
Above Right: hidden path
There’s a couple of places where the path seems to vanish, in the case it dived down a steep slope.
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Above Left: another view of Moléson
Above Right: looking back at the Tour de Famelon
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Above: Looking down on Lac de l’Hongrin
This is the same lake we’d walked to a few days ago from La Lecherette, in fact the Tour de Famelon is visible on the first photo in that blog entry .
There’s a handful more photographs in the gallery.
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