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La Dôle

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La Dôle, Vaud, Switzerland La Dole and beyond La Dôle is a peak in the Jura mountains in Vaud in western Switzerland rising to an altitude of 1677.2 meters. It is the second highest peak in the Swiss Jura, the highest being Mont Tendre. La Dôle overlooks to south-east the summit of Barillette Peak, the town of Nyon, Lake Geneva and across the lake the Bernese Alps the Chablais Alps and Mont Blanc. To the south are views of the City of Geneva and the Canton of Geneva; to the north the village of Les Rousses. 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. Radar on the summit La Dôle massif is the northwesternmost part of the Swiss Plateau. To the southwest it ends at the Col de la Faucille, and to the northwest at the Valserine valley, a Rhône tributary. To the north i