La Dôle is a
mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually highe ...
of the
Jura, overlooking
Lake Geneva
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in the westernmost part of the canton of
Vaud
Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms b ...
. Rising to an altitude of 1677 meters, it is the second highest peak in the
Swiss portion of the Jura, after
Mont Tendre
Mont Tendre is a mountain of the Jura, located between the valley of Joux and the basin of Lake Geneva in the canton of Vaud. With an elevation of 1,679 metres above sea level, it is the highest summit of the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountain ...
. Administratively, the summit is split between the municipalities of
Gingins,
Chéserex and
La Rippe. The mountain is also close to and easily accessible from
Saint-Cergue and the
Col de la Givrine
Col de la Givrine (el. 1228 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, near the border with France.
It connects Nyon in Switzerland and Morez in France. The maximum grade of the pass road is 8 percent ...
to the north, both above 1000 meters and connected to
Nyon
Nyon (; outdated German: or ; outdated Italian: , ) is a municipality in Nyon District in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located some 25 kilometers north east of Geneva's city centre, and since the 1970s it has become part of the Ge ...
on Lake Geneva by road and by the
Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez Railway. A paved road also climbs to the Chalet de la Dôle below the summit (1439 m) from Gingins.
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La Dôle overlooks to south-east the summit of
La Barillette, the town of Nyon, Lake Geneva and across the lake the
Alps
The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Swi ...
, including the
Bernese Alps
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the
Chablais Alps
The Chablais Alps are a mountain range in the western Alps. They are situated between Lake Geneva and the Mont Blanc Massif. The Col des Montets separates them from the Mont Blanc Massif in the south, and the Rhône valley separates them from the ...
and the
Mont Blanc massif
The Mont Blanc massif (french: Massif du Mont-Blanc; it, Massiccio del Monte Bianco) is a mountain range in the Alps, located mostly in France and Italy, but also straddling Switzerland at its northeastern end. It contains eleven major indepen ...
. To the south are views of the
City of Geneva and the
Canton of Geneva
The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva (french: link=no, République et canton de Genève; frp, Rèpublica et canton de Geneva; german: Republik und Kanton Genf; it, Repubblica e Cantone di Ginevra; rm, Republica e ...
; to the north the village of
Les Rousses
Les Rousses () is a commune in the Canton of Hauts de Bienne of Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, on the Swiss border.
The Lac des Rousses is located northeast of the village of Les Rousses beside the r ...
. The Dôle massif has a second peak to the northeast, the Pointe de Poêle Chaud, accessible via the
col between them which drops to 1557 m.
La Dôle massif is the northwesternmost part of the
Swiss Plateau
The Swiss Plateau or Central Plateau (german: Schweizer Mittelland; french: plateau suisse; it, altopiano svizzero) is one of the three major landscapes in Switzerland, lying between the Jura Mountains and the Swiss Alps. It covers about 30% of ...
. To the southwest it ends at the Col de la Faucille, and to the northwest at the Valserine valley, a
Rhône
The Rhône ( , ; wae, Rotten ; frp, Rôno ; oc, Ròse ) is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea. At Ar ...
tributary. To the north it ends at the Col de la Givrine, and towards the southeast merges into the Swiss Plateau.
The northwestern side of La Dôle is equipped with ski-lifts and is traversed by alpine ski paths. There is a restricted-access cable car which provides service to the various electronic facilities on the top, including a ball containing aviation radar, a Swiss weather station, television, radio and
EBU telecommunications.
Climate
Due to its altitude and exposed location La Dôle features a
subarctic climate (Dfc) according to the
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...
, with cool summers and relatively long and snowy winters. Precipitation is spread out evenly throughout the year and with 1,845 mm quite high. Winter storms are common and its exposed location contribute to a high annual average wind speed of 8.0 m/s.
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Media
File:Radar La Dole.jpg, Radar on the summit
File:La Dôle Panorama.jpg, Panorama from the summit's perspective overlooking Geneva.
File:La-Dôle-aerial-10.jpg, Aerial view
See also
*List of mountains of Vaud
This is a list of mountains of the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Vaud. Vaud is partly mountainous and is one of the nine cantons having summits above 3,000 metres. It is also one of the two cantons (with Canton of Bern, Bern) extending ...
*List of mountains of Switzerland
This article contains a sortable table of many of the major mountains and hills of Switzerland. The table only includes those summits that have a topographic prominence of at least above other points, and ranks them by height and prominence. T ...
*List of most isolated mountains of Switzerland
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
*List of mountains of Switzerland accessible by public transport
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References
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External links
* ;
"La Dôle: The Jura's answer to the Alps" by Dwight Peck
pictures of the peak;
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Mountains of Switzerland
Mountains of the canton of Vaud
Mountains of the Jura
Dole
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