52974. Half of a polyhedron, it is just short of being a deltahedron with about 120 side faces, mostly equilateral triangles, and a diameter of about 10 meters in Kozaršče, at the side of the road to Šmarata. It is used for storage.
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52974. Half of a polyhedron, it is just short of being a deltahedron with about 120 side faces, mostly equilateral triangles, and a diameter of about 10 meters in Kozaršče, at the side of the road to Šmarata. It is used for storage.
52947. Besides Golobina, Mrzla jama (translated as Cold cave) is the most interesting easily accessible cave in Loška dolina. The entrance, at the end of the right bay in the north of the valley, is seen here from the outside...
52976. ... and here from the inside of the cave. At high water level, the cave turns into a spring.
52977. The entrance tunnel continues with two branches that merge a little further. The western one, the upper one, depicted here is easier to pass.
52978. Slightly narrower passage...
52979. ... is followed by a room with hefty stalactites.
52980. Slot tunnel, here's a view back...
52983. ... soon expands into the main hall of the cave, which was formed at the junction of two faults, roughly in the E-W direction (here is the view to the west) ...
52984. ... and N-S. The latter is nicely decorated with calcite formations on the south side.
52985. On the north side there is a climbable step behind which there is a tunnel through which the water flows into the cave.
52988. Intense black spider on the cave wall
52987. View from the entrance through the grove to the meadow and the path leading to the cave
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Mačkovica and Lanski vrh, September 12 - 21
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