Le Folly

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Le Folly
Vevey with Le Folly in the background

Vevey with Le Folly in the background

height 1730  m above sea level M.
location Canton of Vaud , Switzerland
Mountains Freiburg Pre-Alps
Dominance 0.76 km →  Le Molard
Notch height 110 m ↓  La Forcla
Coordinates 562 533  /  147 645 coordinates: 46 ° 28 '45 "  N , 6 ° 57' 3"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred thirty-three  /  147645
Le Folly (Canton of Vaud)
Le Folly
Normal way Mountain hiking

Le Folly is 1730  m above sea level. M. high mountain of the Freiburg Pre-Alps on the border of the communities Blonay and Montreux in the Swiss canton of Vaud .

Surname

The name Folly is a common name in French- speaking Switzerland for, among other things, mountain slopes on which there were originally bushes or groups of hardwood trees.

location

View from Le Folly on Lake Geneva

The largely forested peak lies between three valleys: the Ruisseau de Saudanne in the north flows after a few kilometers into the Veveyse de Fégire, tributary of the Veveyse . In the southeast lies the valley of the Avessan torrent, which after a few kilometers flows into the Baye de Clarens , whose valley lies in the southwest of Le Folly. The watercourses flow into Lake Geneva at Vevey and Clarens .

Le Folly rises with about 110 meters saddle height above the pass La Forcla (about 1620  m above sea level. M. ) to the east, through which a mountain trail to Molard ( 1751  m above sea level. M. leads).

The mountain lies on the border of the Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut , a park of national importance .

Ascent

The ascent, classified as a mountain hike (T2) according to the SAC hiking scale, is possible from Villard-sur-Chamby , Les Avants , Les Pléiades or Les Paccots near Châtel-Saint-Denis .

In the Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland from 1904, the mountain is mentioned as a destination for the spa guests from Les Avants and Montreux with a beautiful view of Lake Geneva .

Web links

Commons : Le Folly  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Le Folly on the national map of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Freiburg Pre-Alps at geofinder.ch
  3. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 2: Emmenholz - Kraialppass . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1904, p. 132, keyword Folly   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
  4. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 2: Emmenholz - Kraialppass . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1904, p. 133, keyword Folly, Le   ( scan of the lexicon page ).