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Black frozen lake Sils. Lake Sils (German Silsersee, Romansh: Lej da Segl) is a lake in the Upper Engadine valley, Grisons, Switzerland. It takes its name from the village of Sils im Engadin. The lake lies at an altitude of 1,797 metres above sea level, between Maloja Pass and Lake Silvaplana. Several mountains over 3,000 metres overlook the lake, notably Piz Corvatsch, Piz Grevasalvas and Piz da la Margna. The lake's drainage basin culminates at Piz Fora (3,336 m) and comprises the Vadrec da Fedoz glacier.
With a surface area of 4.1 km², Lake Sils is the largest lake of the Engadine. It is also the largest natural lake in the Alps lying above 1,000 metres. The lake was formed by a prehistoric landslide dam, similarly to Lake Silvaplana (Source: Wikipedia).
On a sunny autumn day in the Morteratsch Valley/Graubünden/Switzerland, at the end of which the miserable remnant of the Morteratsch glacier can be seen.
About 100 years ago, the whole valley was filled with several kilometers of this glacier.
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Il s’agit d’un lac alpin artificiel, situé près du Julierpass, dans la commune de Marmorera. Lorsque le barrage de Marmorera fut terminé, en 1954, l'ancienne commune Marmorera fut engloutie et reconstruite au-dessus du barrage et de son lac de retenue, sur la route 3 ou Julierstrasse.
Le village de Silvaplana est situé à la jonction des lacs de Champfèr (Champfersee) et de Silvana (Silvaplanersee), canton des Grisons, Suisse. Cette vue a été captée à partir de la route 27 qui mène au nord vers Sankt Moritz et au sud vers la jonction avec la route 3.
Le Lac de Champfèr (Champfersee) est situé sur le plateau engadinois. Il est sur le territoire de la commune de Silvaplana. À l'ouest le lac est dominé par le piz Albana. Il est relié au lac de Silvaplana puisque situé directement au nord/nord-est de ce dernier mais aussi connecté au lac de Sankt Moritz par la rivière Inn.
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Man glaubt es kaum, aber in dem See kann man schwimmen. Ich war so ca. 20 mal drinnen. In der unglaublichen Sommerhitze tat das richtig gut so eine Abkühlung. Das Wasser war ca. 12°C.
View of Lago Bianco from the Diavolezza cable car.
Vue du Lago Bianco depuis le téléphérique de Diavolezza. The Grisons , Switzerland. No. 8013
"Lago Bianco (literally "White Lake") is a reservoir at the Bernina pass in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It has an elevation of 2,234 m (7,329 ft), a length of 2.85 km (1.77 mi), a surface area of 1.50 km2 (0.58 sq mi) and a maximum depth of 53 m (174 ft). Once the site of two smaller lakes (Lago Bianco and Lago della Scala), the current reservoir was formed by the constructions of two dams (Scala and Arlas) at its southern and northern ends. The current lake drains to the south, as did both its precursor lakes, with its water eventually reaching the Mediterranean via the rivers Poschiavino, Adda and Po. By contrast, Lej Nair, just below the northern dam. drains north into the Black Sea via the rivers Inn and Danube.[1][2]
The summit of the Bernina railway line, which is the highest mountain crossing railway in Europe, runs alongside the eastern side of the lake, with the Ospizio Bernina station at roughly the mid-point. The road across the Bernina pass (Hauptstrasse 29) follows a higher route on the same side of the lake. Most of the lake lies within the municipality of Poschiavo, although the most northerly section and the northern dam lie within the municipality of Pontresina.[1]
The Lago Bianco reservoir was created between 1910 and 1911 in order to provide a constant supply of water to a series of hydro-electric power plants in the Val Poschiavo. It has a maximum volume of 18.6 million cubic metres (15,100 acre⋅ft). Initially water was discharged into natural watercourses as far as a power station intake at Cavaglia that fed the Robbia power station [de] at San Carlo. However, in 1927 two power stations were built between the lake and Cavaglia. The highest of these, the Palü power station [de] at Lago Palü, is now fed by a pipeline from the southern end of the reservoir.
There are current proposals to construct a pumped storage scheme based on Lago Bianco and the Lago di Poschiavo some 1,270 metres (4,170 ft) below. This would involve creating a 18.1 kilometres (11.2 mi) long tunnel high along the western side of the Val di Poschiavo, followed by 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) long shaft to an underground power plant on the banks of the Lago di Poschiavo. This would have a total installed capacity of 1000 MW and would consume electricity to pump water to the higher level at times of low demand and release water to generate electricity in times of high demand. The scheme would involve raising the dams at either end of Lago Bianco by 4.35 metres (14.3 ft). The proposals have received formal consent from the cantonal authorities, but as of 2016 are not believed to be financially viable.
Le Lago Bianco (littéralement "lac blanc") est un réservoir situé au col de la Bernina dans le canton suisse des Grisons. Il a une altitude de 2 234 m, une longueur de 2,85 km, une superficie de 1,50 km2 et une profondeur maximale de 53 mètres. " Wikipédia
Le col de la Flüela se situe au sein de la chaîne de l'Albula, dans le canton suisse des Grisons. Il permet de relier la vallée de Landwasser et la Basse-Engadine. Wikipédia
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Maighels Valley near Oberalp Pass and Lake Toma (Lai da Tuma, Tomasee), Grisons, Switzerland.
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Afternoon hike near Flims, Grisons. Switzerland.
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Sankt Moritz Dorf au bord du lac Sankt Moritzersee, canton des Grisons, Suisse.
Une vue panoramique à partir de la kirche San Karl de St. Moritz-Bad située en bordure du lac Sankt Moritzersee, à l'embouchure de la rivière Inn. On reconnaît la silhouette massive du Badrutt's Palace Hotel (1896), le clocher (1896) de la Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchgemeinde de Sankt Moritz et la Tour penchée, i.e. le clocher de l'ancienne église de Saint-Moritz, un point de repère qui date du 13e siècle.
La commune Saint-Moritz est située dans l’Engadine, au bord de l’Inn. Elle s’étale en gradin au-dessus de son lac. Elle est une des plus anciennes stations de sports d'hiver du monde, réputée pour ses 322 jours de soleil par an. Elle a organisé à deux reprises les Jeux olympiques d'hiver, en 1928 et 1948.
La station se divise en deux parties : Saint-Moritz-Dorf (1 822 m d’altitude), le village lui-même, regroupé autour d’une tour inclinée (campanile de l’église Saint-Mauritius) et Saint-Moritz-Bad (1 774 m d’altitude), à l’embouchure de l’Inn dans le lac, là où se trouvent les hôtels les plus récents et les établissements thermaux.
Lake Palpuogna (Lai da Palpuogna), an idyllic lake in the Canton of Grisons/Switzerland on a sunny autumn day.
Panorama from 7 vertical images.
explored Sept. 6, 2020 #93
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Taken from Plaun da Lej located at Lake Sils (Silsersee), Grisons, Switzerland.
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High above the Rhine Valley (north fork, rr. Surselva) are beautiful small villages with original little wooden houses (dt. Walserhäuser) with flowers in front of their windows and balconies and tight lanes. It seems that time stands still if it weren't for the modern days cars that are everywhere around for which it's hard to find parking lots in all this tightness. Every once in a while when you get a glimpse into these houses because a door or window is open, you realize most of these houses look old on the outside but are renovated and very modern on the inside.
One such Rhaeto-Romanic village is Ladir and its church thrones outside the village on a platform. I find it looks awesome in this mountain environment, but see yourself...
Ladir, Surselva, Grison, Switzerland.
The way to the Refuge Boval (Bovalhütte), Cabane de Boval. Bernina area. Kanton Grisons, Switzerland. August 13, 2015. No,8283.
Le col de la Bernina est un col des Alpes suisses dans le canton des Grisons. Il culmine à 2 328 mètres d'altitude. Il relie l’Engadine à la Valteline, en Italie. C'est le plus haut col de Suisse et des Alpes qui reste ouvert toute l'année.
Au sommet du col se trouvent l’hospice (Ospizio Bernina) et deux lacs : le Lej Nair, qui appartient au bassin de l’Inn et le Lago Bianco, qui appartient au bassin du Pô. Le col de Bernina se trouve sur la ligne de partage des eaux entre la mer Noire et la mer Adriatique. Il sépare également deux langues et deux cultures : l’Engadine où se parle le romanche et le val Poschiavo où se parle l’italien.
La route a été ouverte entre 1842 et 1865, mesure 38 kilomètres et a une déclivité de 10 %
View from the top of Corvatsch mountain in Graubünden canton, Switzerland last autumn, I went up there on the last day before the cable car shut down for the season, I don't want to remember how much the ride costs. Greetings from Romania where the roads so far have been excellent, and I've been driving even to remote villages, so it's not like I've been avoiding punishment, unfortunately I can't say the same about Bulgaria. In the past the road conditions were exactly the opposite in these countries.
The best time of year at a mountain lake in Grisons/Switzerland.
Zur besten Jahreszeit an einem Bergsee in Graubünden/Schweiz.
Berghütten unterhalb Startgels. Im Hintergrund die Signinagruppe.
Old cabins below Startgels with a view on Signinagruppe.
Flims, Graubünden, Grison, Schweiz, Switzerland
After the first night in the Hotel Preda Kulm/Bergün /Canton Grisons, the mountains were in the most beautiful light.
So windows open, tripod and camera build and take pictures, because experience has shown that this spectacle takes only a few minutes in the sky.
The picture is a 16:8 cut of a large panorama of 9 vertical pictures a' 110 mm.
I recommend double-clicking for extra large view!
Nach der ersten Nacht im Hotel Preda Kulm/Bergün/Kanton Graubünden zeigten sich die Berge im schönsten Licht. Also Fenster auf, Stativ und Kamera aufbauen und fotografieren, denn erfahrungsgemäß dauert dieses Spektakel am Himmel nur wenige Minuten an.
Das Bild ist ein 16:8 Schnitt eines großen Panoramas aus 9 vertikalen Bildern a´110 mm.
Ich empfehle Doppelklick für besonders große Ansicht!
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As photographers, you know, that usually it doesn't help a lot to take great pictures when it rains. Of course you don't like it when the sun shines plain down either...yes, we are a spoiled species... ;))
But this 'rainy day in July' was just perfect to take pictures of this picturesque lake...
Lake Cresta (dt. Crestasee), Trin, Flims, Grison, Switzerland.
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Klosters is a Swiss village in the Prättigau, politically part of the municipality of Klosters-Serneus, which belongs to the political district Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden. Klosters has a Tundra climate (ET) under the Köppen climate classification. The average annual temperature is 2 °C.
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Start im Dischmatal, Dürrboden. Von dort über den Scalettapass zur Alp Funtauna runter. Ab hier durch das Val Funtauna zur Keschhütte und weiter nach Bergün, total 05:25h.
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The Landwasser Viaduct was constructed between 1901 and 1902 on behalf of the Rhaetian Railway, which both owns and operates it till today. The viaduct is part of the World Heritage-listed Albula Railway linking Thusis on the Hinterrhein (697 m) and Filisur (1,080 m) with St. Moritz in the Engadin (1,775 m). The Landwasser Viaduct is 65 m high and 136 m long. One of the striking features is its highly pronounced curve.
In 2009 the viaduct was renovated for the first time since its original construction.
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Summer twilight time , The Diavolezza , Val Bernina , Graubünden , Switzerland. No. 8152.
"The Diavolezza (in the local variant of Italian, She-Devil) is a mountain in the area of Pontresina in Graubünden. It has a height of 2978 m and is located southeast of Munt Pers (3207 m).
The mountain can be reached by cable car from Val Bernina, the Bernina Pass valley. At the base station of the cable car on 2093 m there is a train station (on the Bernina line of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB)). At the summit, there is a restaurant with a panoramic terrace, as well as a hotel offering both hotel-class and bunk-style accommodations.
The Diavolezza is one of the ski areas of the Upper Engadin (from 1'896 m to 3'066 m). The skiing area is connected to that of Piz Lagalb, which lies on the opposite side of the valley. The two areas are usually marketed as one, called Diavolezza-Lagalb. The Diavolezza-Lagalb area is known for its difficult slopes, all red and black, as well as the good snow conditions lasting often as long as May. Especially popular is the difficult 10 km slope down the Morteratsch Glacier to the Morteratsch railway station (the slope on the glacier is marked and secured).
“La Diavolezza” – The beautiful she-devil .
Die Diavolezza (rätoromanisch: Teufelin) ist ein Berg und Skigebiet auf dem Gemeindegebiet von Pontresina in Graubünden in der südöstlichen Schweiz. Er hat eine Höhe von 2978 m und liegt südöstlich des Munt Pers (3207 m).
Der Berg ist durch eine Kabinenseilbahn vom oberengadinischen Val Bernina her ganzjährig erschlossen. An der Talstation der Seilbahn auf 2093 m liegt die Haltestelle Bernina Diavolezza der Berninabahn von Sankt Moritz nach Tirano. An der Bergstation gibt es ein Restaurant mit Bar und Aussichtsterrasse.
ltitude: 2973 m
Accès:
train de Coire ou de Saint-Moritz à Bernina Diavolezza (parfois, changement et bus à partir de Pontresina), téléphérique pour la Diavolezza.
Vue: monde des glaciers de Pers et Morteratsch, massif du Palü et Piz Bernina en arrière-plan, val Bernina et col de la Bernina vers le nord.
Attractions: randonnée dans les glaciers de la Diavolezza à Morteratsch, deux vias ferratas de différents niveaux de difficulté, soirée sur les glaciers et hébergement à l’auberge de montagne
Pause gourmande: recettes régionales des Grisons et de la Valteline
Hébergement: Berghaus Diavolezza: chambres doubles et multiples
Groupes: restaurant Bellavista de 120 places, Diavolezza Stübli de 50 places, cafétéria de 100 places; infrastructures pour ateliers et réunions
Hiver: domaines skiables Diavolezza et Lagalp
Particularités: en hiver, 10 km de descente jusqu’à Morteratsch via les glaciers de Pers et de Morteratsch."
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