Primož Jakopin, photo diary

From Lepotica in zver / The Beauty and the Beast cave to Lanski vrh
The brightness of the rounded cave walls

15, 16 and 23 March, 12 pictures

Most images are approximately 683 times 1024 pixels in size, numbers in front of the picture descriptions are the serial numbers of the original photo files. Names of several cave parts were given by the author. Marjan Baričič, Marjan Juvan - Manč, Andrej Puc - Fofr, Igor Maksim Košir - Ičo and Rok Brajkovič - Brajko, who is also present in several photos, took part in the excursion on March 16 (Radošca 2/81). Metod Di Batista, Marjan Baričič, Marjan Juvan - Manč, Marko Vogrič - Mare, Andrej Puc - Fofr, who also contributed to a photo, and Igor Maksim Košir - Ičo were present at the excursion on March 23 (Radošca 2/82).

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Lepotica in zver, 15 March

52191. The cave, cave registry number 11663 is 35 meters long and 15 meters deep, the entrance is 675 meters above sea level. Access to the cave is not difficult - along the forest road to the intersection, where the road makes a sharp turn, first to the west and then back to the east. At the intersection, you have to continue not up the slope to the west, but straight ahead to the east, almost along the isohypsis, for another 100 meters. To a large clearing where the road ends and a place for an apiary is marked. Two paths go ahead, the left, larger one, in the ENE direction, and the other, more straight, ESE, slightly uphill. After 300 meters along this path, the entrance to the cave is clearly seen on the right side. In the photo: a view in the direction of 160⁰ (south is 180⁰) over a fissure with the cave. From the standpoint, which is at the lower end of the entrance, to the bottom is at least 10 meters of vertical descent. The author was a little clumsy, he leaned his hazel walking stick, which kept him company for about four years, against the beech tree, which is clearly visible in the middle of the next photo. While searching for the right place to take the photo, he accidentally kicked the stick, which bounced down the slope a few times before landing at the bottom.

52192. View of the entrance from the other, north side

52194. View across the entrance from the east, at sunset

Skednena jama, 16 March

52197. The end of the Side tunnel, lit by two LED reflectors, placed behind a small rock pillar that separates two wall niches.

52198. The walls are very varied, in some places softly rounded, there are many wall and ceiling indentations, some of them are quite deep and show that the tunnel continued before the bottom was covered by sediments, mainly clay. View back along the tuneel ...

52199. ... here with Brajko.

52200. Looking back from the path through the collapse doline at the North entrance to the cave, mainly hazel bush, with some elder.

Kobilnica cave

52203. If, when the path crosses the ridge on the south side of the collpase doline at the Northern entrance to Skednena jama, you do not take the wider path to the east back to the South entrance, but to the west towards Kališka cesta, the entrance to the Kobilnica cave opens shortly to the left under the trail. It has cave registry number 3109, is 11 meters deep and 63 meters long. As is the case with Maozedong's cave (cave reg. no. 492) in the Škofji lom, a little closer towards the village of Laze, Kobilnica also hides quite a few surprises, and cavers from the northern side of the Alps, guests of the nearby speleo camping, have dug in it many times. In the photo: the view from the cave towards the entrance.

52202. View from the ledge atop the Side tunnel back towards the entrance

Lookout above Nad Stenami cliff

52204. View from under the oak tree to the south, Jakovica hill to the left, Javorniki chain in the middle, Planina below them, Planinska gora to the right.

52205. Liverwort, Hepatica nobilis

Skednena jama, 23 March

52219. Fofr in Topli rov / Warm tunnel of the cave