47705. Bride's feathers, Aruncus dioicus, kresničevje
Most images are approximately 683 x 1024 pixels in size, numbers in front of the picture descriptions are serial numbers of the original photo files. The names of plants and animals, given after the Latin ones, are Slovenian. South arête of Turska gora was identified by Janez Vengar - član Giovanni.
Pictures photo and copyright (c) Primož Jakopin - Klok.
47705. Bride's feathers, Aruncus dioicus, kresničevje
47706. Južni raz / South arête of Turska gora (2,251 m), above the forest track to Gamsov skret ...
47707. ... and its telephoto view
47708. Blossom of ox-eye, Buphthalmum salicifolium, vrbovolistni primožek
47709. View of the shelter from the bottom of Gamsov skret ...
47710. ... and a telephoto view.
47711. View southeast, to Kamniška Bistrica valley from the gravel slope below the shelter
47712. Alpine laburnum, Laburnum alpinum, alpski nagnoj, lovely yellow curtains along the trail, ...
47713. ... here seen up close
47714. A black and brown grasshopper
47715. Carniolan lily, Lilium carniolicum, kranjska lilija or zlato jabolko
47716. Escargot, Helix pomatia, veliki vrtni polž, one of 50 or so encountered on the way, contrary to just one of its homeless cousins, the unwelcome slugs. They were all of somewhat lighter color (body and shell) compared to their lowland siblings.
47717. Wider view of the cave with the rock above it, and ...
47719. ... a closer view
47722. Here is a view from inside out. A wild stone fruit tree, growing nearly horizontally, covers greater part of the entrance cross section.
47733. View of the valley from below the entrance
47729. A rather crumbling western wall of the entrance hall
47723. The cave ends with an ever more narrow meander ...
47724. ... the floor in front of which speaks in favor of the first shelter name meaning.
47725. If you manage to squeeze in the meander as far as it gets such a view out opens up.
47728. At about the middle of the entrance hall a fissure in the ceiling feeds a tiny trickle of water which is slowly rounding the small stones on the floor.
47732. Somebody carved this bird totem out of wood (about 0.8 m across) and hanged it from the tree in the entrance. Making this picture was tricky, feeble wind constantly rotates the sculpture and to persuade the phone camera to focus properly (not on the forest in the background) plus to trigger its shutter with voice control more time is needed than one would wish for. The penultimate of 20 or so shots produced this image.
47718. The wall at the eastern side of Gamsov skret is carved by narrow žlebiči (pron. zhlabeechy), karst karren forms, while ...
47734. ... in the western wall žlebiči are deeper and overgrown, as they are less exposed to the sun and retain moisture longer.
47735. Scree slope is interspersed with larger solitary rocks.
47736. A lawn of blossoming wild carrots from the Apiaceae family, korenjavec
47737. Two black and white wasps pasturing on an ox-eye
47738. The trail is very much overgrown but even in dense grass its outline can be discerned (and felt), by feet if by nothing else.
From Gradišnica to Članska vas and Back, June 24
To Kokrško sedlo / Kokra Saddle, June 27
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