Up and out of the Doubs

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Periodically lakes would appear, offering reflections instead of rapids. swissinfo.ch

The small auberge at Le Chatelôt, where we would have loved to stop for lunch! swissinfo.ch

Auberge at the end of Lac des Brenets, where the lakewater goes underground for a few hundred metres before leaping over the Saut du Doubs. swissinfo.ch

The trail on the Swiss side of the Doubs offered hundreds of hanging sections with cliffs above and below. swissinfo.ch

View to the southwest, over Les Brenets, where our world changes from the canyon of the Doubs to the high country ridges of the high Jura. swissinfo.ch

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This morning a journalist from a Jura newspaper came to talk for while, and he asked if I wasn't curious about the Jura above me.

The river in its canyon is a unique environment, utterly unlike the rest of the land in the forested mountains.
Why yes I am, I told him, but for now the canyon of the Doubs is our world, and we’re very glad to be in it.

But now it’s a few hours later and we’re a bit tired from the hard single-track trails we’ve travelling all morning. We’re actually looking forward to this brand new world opening in front of us as we’ll climb several hundred metres into the high and cold hills above. The wind is already swaying the trees. This is the famous watchmaking country and we’re about to pass through its heart at Le Locle.