Main Section Photo Gallery by Jonathan Yarak at pbase.com

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Here are most of the good photos, including those listed in favorites, but excluding ones I considered mostly family-oriented shots.

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Mary-Jeanne's house in Fontainemelon.	Flowers in front of the house, Fontainemelon.	Bees harvesting pollen, Fontainemelon.	Another bee, another flower.	Fontainemelon.
Wonderful place for an afternoon lunch.	At the Huber farm (relatives of ours).	Huber farm.	Huber farm.	Huber farm.
	Lodge near the Huber farm.		The lodge from another angle.	Another farm and farmer.

Original Mini with an Apple sticker!	The Alps in the background, took a lot of processing to cut through the haze.	La Chaux-de-Fonds.	The Tete-de-Ran.	The valley north of Neuchatel, containing many towns including Fontainemelon.
Looking at the Alps in the distance.	Hotel-Restaurant at the Tete-de-Ran.	Fontainemelon from the Tete-de-Ran.	Us heading down, paragliders heading up.
Paraglider in front of the village of Saules.	More of Mary-Jeanne's flowers.	The Creux-du-Van.		Stevo at the Creux du Van
Valley heading toward La Chaux de Fonds, from the Creux du Van.	Creux du Van.	Creux du Van.	Jean-Claude at the Creux du Van.	Glider over the Creux du Van.
Creux du Van.	Creux du Van.	Creux du Van.	Creux du Van.	Creux du Van.
Bees at the Creux du Van.	Creux du Van, with the town of Brot-Dessous in the background.	Creux du Van.	Hiking around behind the Creux du Van.	Picnic!
The towns of Noiraigue on the left, Brot-Dessous on the right, and the valley above.	Brot-Dessous.	Creux du Van.	Dad and Steven pointing off into the distance.
	Two chamois goats visible in the shot, on the left and right.	Dad getting a pic of the goats from the previous pic.	Butterflies at the Creux du Van.	Steven playing with the goats.
Evil goat.	Boxer Beer!		Night over Fontainemelon.	Night over Fontainemelon.
Looking across Lake Geneva into the Valais.	I believe that is Saint-Gingolph across Lake Geneva.	Montreux, on Lake Geneva.	Montreux in the foreground, the Valais in the background.	Cloudy scene in the Val D'Anniviers.
Clouds and sunlight from our balcony.	The Val D'Anniviers at night.	The little town of St. Jean across the valley.	The Matterhorn in the morning, from our balcony.	Panorama from our balcony. Stitched from three photos shifted with the TS-E 17mm.
Grimentz across the valley.				First day hike, heading toward the Hotel Weisshorn.
Stevo looking down into the valley.	Hotel Weisshorn.	Hotel Weisshorn.	Grimentz.	On the way back down.
On the way back down.	On the way back down.	Flowers in front, our village of St Luc in the backg.	Saturn and the Hotel Weisshorn.	Light through the clouds across the valley.
Our group heading back down.	Hotel Weisshorn.		Grimentz again.	Hotel Weisshorn.
Mountains at the end of the valley.	Hotel Weisshorn.	Panorama from Tignousa.	The Tignousa funicular.	The Hotel Bella-Tolla, where we had dinner on Dad's birthday.
Looking North from the Moiry Lake dam.	Looking south over Moiry Lake.	There are some rock climbers in there, how many can you count?		Keith and Steven.
Flowers at Moiry Lake.	Moiry Glacier just coming into view.	Matching outfit and flowers!
	Lunching under the umbrella.			Cabane de Moiry, over the glacier.
		Moiry Glacier, some of the color starting to show.	HDR of the glacier and lake.
Moiry dam.	Looking back toward Grimentz and St Luc.	Grimentz.	Grimentz.	Fire hydrant in Grimentz.
Houses in Grimentz.	Hotel in Grimentz.	Grimentz.	First view of the Matterhorn, at Zermatt.	Matterhorn.
Matterhorn.	Tourists waving at us on the train.	Hiker at the Matterhorn.	Looking off toward the mountains.
Gornergratbahn and the Matterhorn.	Gornergrat observatory and the Matterhorn.	Monte Rosa glacier and the Matterhorn.		Matterhorn.
Focused on the Matterhorn, at Gornergrat.		Monte Rosa glacier.	Matterhorn.	Riffelsee Lake reflecting the Matterhorn.
Matterhorn.	Matterhorn.	The Monte Rosa Massif. Tallest mountain in Switzerland.		Monte Rosa Massif reflected in a window at Rotenboden.
	Getting ready to go paragliding!	Paragliding over Zermatt.	Mom over the Matterhorn.	Mom again.
Mom over the Zermatt valley.	Sheep, the Monte Rosa, and Riffelberg.	Matterhorn.	Paragliding.	Mom paragliding in front of Zermatt.
We took off from below and flew around on thermals until we were WAY above where we started.	Zermatt valley.	Mom!	Quite possibly my favorite shot of the trip.	Matterhorn.
Zermatt Valley.	Another glacier at Zermatt.	Zermatt and the Matterhorn.	Zermatt valley.	Zermatt, just before landing.
Dad doing his thing from the paraglider.	Helicopters are useful for construction!	Matterhorn from Zermatt.	Matterhorn from Zermatt.	Cows on the Sorebois.
Hiking up the Sorebois.	The elusive pink-legged grasshopper!	Ian and Petra making a wish on the way up the Sorebois.	The Val d'Anniviers.
Ian and Mary-Jeanne.		Moiry Lake on the right, from the Sorebois.	The Val d'Anniviers, from the Corne de Sorebois.
	Dad down below. This would be better if the path behind him didn't look like lightning striking his head!
St Luc, our chalet is in there somewhere, but the Hotel Bella Tolla is quite clear.	The Dents-du-Midi mountains in the distance.	Moiry Lake.	Dad doing his thing.	Mom and Petra in front of the Moiry Lake.
				Cow!
Riding trottinettes down the mountain became a tradition after this, our first taste of the glory.	Petra was a speed demon on those things!	Taking the ski lift up from Chandolin, toward the Illhorn.	Dad and the Moon!	At the top of the Illhorn.
At the top of the Illhorn.	The Weisshorn and the Matterhorn.	The Valais to the North.	The Matterhorn.	The Mont Blanc peaking through the clouds in the distance.
Path up the Bishorn, Weisshorn obscured by clouds.	Ian filming me :-)	The Valais again.	The Loetschental valley opening from the Valais.	Moon over the mountains.
				Sculpture in the old town of Chandolin.
Chandolin.	Chandolin.	Chandolin.	Chandolin.	Chandolin.
Tibetan prayer flags in Chandolin.	The Hotel Weisshorn at sunset, from our balcony.	In St. Luc.	Berries!	Getting ready to summit the Bella Tolla.
Starting the hike.			Flowers and sunlight.
Getting closer...	First view to the North.	We took the wrong way, and had to climb this very steep rope-assisted route.	Petra was slightly frightened and refused to let go of the pole!	Ian and Petra at the summit.
	All of us at the summit.	Bella Tolla summit.	Bishorn and Weisshorn.	The Hotel Weisshorn with Grimentz in the background.
Bella Tolla summit.	Sun over the Alps.	Looking down the ridge.	Dad shooting the Alps.	Me at the Bella Tolla summit.
The Mont Blanc peeking through the clouds again.	The Matterhorn.			Cabin framed by rock formations.
The rest of the group having lunch.			The Dents-du-Midi.
Mom heading down.	Mary-Jeanne heading down.		The Hotel Weisshorn and its valley.	A glider over the valley.
The path behind us, the Bella Tolla on the right.	The Cabane Bella Tolla.	Petra posing for a picture.		From the cable car up to Riederalp.
Riederalp.	So many paragliders!	Church at Riederalp.	The Monte Rosa and the Matterhorn off in the distance.	The Aletsch Glacier.
One of the side glaciers with huge boulders on it.	Glacier and its melt leading down to the Aletsch.	Paragliding into the sun.	Falling rocks!	The Aletsch.
Thistles at the Aletsch.	Trying to find our way...		The Aletsch turning the corner.	Thistles at the Aletsch.
Stitched pano with the TS lens at the Aletsch.	Sheep at the Aletsch.	I was just playing with the tilt function for this shot, turns out I kinda liked it.	Single shot pano of the Aletsch.
Looking down toward Moosfluh (great name) and Riederalp.		Riederalp.	Sunset on Martigny, at the end of the Rhone Valley.	Sunset.
Cats!		This guy looks like he had cataracts, no pun intended, or at least a somehow damaged left eye.	But he was a tough dude.	Guardians of the vineyards.

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