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Petit Ballon

Petit Ballon

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The Petit Ballon (German: Kleiner Belchen) or Little Belchen,[2] is, at 1272m, one of the highest peaks of the Vosges Mountains in the department of Haut-Rhin, Alsace in France, about 5 km away from the village of Wasserbourg. The Rothenbrunnen mountain hut is 500m below. A car park is a further 500m away.

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The Col du Petit Ballon pass (elevation 1,163 m (3,816 ft)) is close to the summit.

The mountain is part of the Belchen System, a group of mountains with the name "Belchen" (in German) that may have been part of a Celtic sun calendar.

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  1. [1]
    Le Petit Ballon, web-page on www.peakbagger.com
  2. [2]
    Chevrier, Jean-François. From Basel - Herzog & de Meuron, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2016, p. 54.

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