La Dôle

The mountain peak La Dole.

La Dole called a mountain peak in the Jura mountains in western Switzerland, 10 km west-northwest of Nyon. The Dole reached an altitude of 1'677 m above sea level. M. and is therefore after the Mont Tendre is the second highest mountain in the Swiss Jura. The east upstream hilltop La Barillette is 1,528 m high.

The ridge of La Dole is part of the south-eastern, the Central Plateau to the nearest chain of the Jura folds. It is bounded on the southwest by the Faucille, in the northwest through the rearmost part of the Valserine valley which opens in Bellegarde- sur -Valserine in the Rhone, on the north by the Col de la Givrine and to the southeast by the level of Central Plateau. Near the summit of the Dole runs to the south and west, the border between Switzerland and France. The 1000 m high south-eastern slope of the Dole is densely forested. The tree line is at about 1,500 m, then there are mountain pastures. In the area of the summit ridge we find sinkholes and karst fields, the typical landforms of limestone. On the northern slope of the Dole springs the Valserine.

At the north -west slopes of Dole skiing is operated in the winter, there are several ski lifts. On the mountain there is a station of MeteoSwiss, including a radar station, which detects the precipitation intensity over the entire western part of Switzerland. The Skyguide operates an air traffic control radar at the summit. Also located on the Dole, a radio and TV from Swisscom, which radiates the SRG SSR Idée Suisse in Geneva Basin.

For employees in 1991 accommodations were created which were prefabricated from six aircraft fuselage -like elements and managed by helicopter to the site. They complement the ensemble of weather station and radar dome, between which they stand, and are matched to the often almost polar weather with gusts up to 200 km / h. It was planned to the tubular aluminum clad building by Vincent Mangeat.

La Dole right in the background from the Lac des Rousses from

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