Most images are approximately 768 x 1024 pixels in size, numbers in front of the picture descriptions are serial numbers of the original photo files. Event participants who contributed to the making of these pictures and related persons: Janez Kanoni - Žan, Metod Di Batista, Marjan Baričič, Gregor Pintar - Stari, Marko Vogrič - Mare and Igor Maksim Košir - Ičo. Butterfly in the picture 41564 was identified by Adrian Wilkins.
Pictures photo and copyright (c) Primož Jakopin - Klok 2018.

41563. Marjan is getting ready for cave work while Ičo is explaining to Žan the intricate anomaly of the electron scattering on a mesh.

41564. A female silver-washed fritillary, Argynnis paphia, gospica (little lady) in Slovenian

41565. Ičo's snack: kulen, cheese and žemlja (bread roll is a rather poor translation)

41566. Another snack: cooked chickpeas and spinach, buckwheat bread, garlic, black cumin oil, figs, plums, aronia juice with spinach water

41562. The weather cooled off by about 5 degrees C since last week.

41568. There are many ways to make fire, some are more comfortable than others.

41569. Gregor on top of the depot, now filled to capacity.

41570. Mare with a full bucket - the feeling was quite overwhelming as today was his first deep down cave duty.

41571. Marjan above the terminal pit

41572. Matod is digging ...

41573. ... quite a distance below the the access ledge.

41574. Beams that hold the collapse in place

41575. Continuation is believed to be where the light comes from ...

41577. ... behind these rocks, below a firm ceiling which is no longer part of the collapse.

41578. Close view of the current excavation place

41580. A hole in the collapse, opposite the excavation ceiling

41579. View up from the bottom with Metod on top ...

41581. ... and now already below again

41582. Marjan is waiting in the tunnel for the Klok to pass him on the way up so that he can replace Metod at the excavation front.

41583. View of the entrance pit from below

41587. Improvised tripod ...

41586. ... for this selfie at the entrance

41584. Gregor, on his way down after a short break outside, tried how the phone camera shutter release voice control would work ...

41585. ... and Cheese! proved to be the best choice.

41588. View of the village in the deciduous foliage, from the trail to Radošca

41589. Preparation of afternoon snack on the open fire: hot water and pancakes

41590. Mare and Marjan are back ...

41591. ... and so are Metod and Gregor.

41592. Getting out of the cave digging fatigues

41593. View to Breg Unica riverbank from the access track

41594. View upstream Unica with dense grass and willow bushes at the sides, Planinska gora hill is on the horizon.

41595. River crossing shallows ...

41596. ... and a view downstream

41597. Jama v Dolenjih lokah cave (Cave Registry Nr. 172), a sinkhole with an artificially widened entrance, view from inside out ...

41598. ... and here from the end of the artificial tunnel

41599. View towards the inside from the end of the concrete wall

41600. View southeast, across Unica

41601. Požiralnik pri Dolenjih lokah cave, view from the Unica river bed

41603. Hornbeam trees, in the forest above the sinkholes

41604. Closer view of the hollow trunk of the hornbeam on the left of the previous picture - a bumble bee just flew into its interior.

41605. View out from the hornbeam cavern

41602. View west across Unica with Planinska gora in the background
Metod's Platinum Jubilee, August 24
Radošca / Radoshitza Cave, Day 91, September 12
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