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Cleuson Lake, Nendaz - Switzerland, I - XII - 2018
I - XII 2018, Switzerland
Picture on the left. From the "Auberge de Salanfe", looking towards west, in the background, "L'Epaule, 3010m", "Tour Salière, 3220m", and "Le Dôme, 3137m". The Lake Salanfe, is a man-made lake in a high glacial basin. Access to the Salanfe Dam is possible via a 3.6km mountain trail with a positive elevation gain of 549m. The approximate walking time is about 1h45. In Salanfe, the circuit of the lake takes about 2h45. A brochure available at the guesthouse will allow you to discover all the richness of the place, gold mine, glaciers, geology, fauna and flora. The Salanfe Dam has a storage capacity of 40 million m3. It was designed as a gravity dam and is 52 m high. It is 40 m thick at the base and 608 m long at the top.

Lac de Salanfe
Lac de Salanfe
Cleuson Lake, Nendaz, 2018
I - XII 2018, Switzerland
The Lake Cleuson
Hiking trail to the lake Cleuson
Hiking trail to the lake Cleuson
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