55052. A delightfully colourful metal rack, well stocked, including the caving equipment
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Matic Prevec and Jakob Majdič from the Ljubljana Cave Exploration Society participated in the creation
of the photos in Lipiška jama.
Names of cave parts were sometimes given by the author.
The main purpose of the excursion was to photograph the Great Stalagmite in the Big Hall of
the Lipiška jama. There was a partial success, but some work still remains to be done.
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55052. A delightfully colourful metal rack, well stocked, including the caving equipment
55053. Matic and Jakob above the start of the via ferrata, in the entrance to the cave
55054. A "butterfly" knot was used to secure access to the via ferrata. Jakob did the rigging.
55055. Game of light and shadows on the west wall of the entrance
55056. Edge of distinct daylight at the bottom of entrance pit
55059. The 18-meter-high Great Stalagmite in the Big Hall...
55061. ... and his slightly shorter, but more richly ornamented brother.
55064. Medusa stalagmite from the west...
55066. ... and from the south side.
55070. Flowstone forms and calcite crystals under the overturned stalagmite
55071. Matic and Jakob after returning from the cave. We were a little late, but it was a good time.
55073. Southern sky with sun and clouds over the hill by the lake
55074. The statuette by Nataša Prestor, an additional gift to the winner of the award, was especially beautiful this year, with a touch of Maghreb. It was 18.5 cm tall. Cavers of Novo Mesto won the contest, for exploration of the Trnljulčica deep cave on Mount Kanin. In just a few excursions from August to the end of 2024, they advanced from a depth of 40 meters to 925 meters, where they were stopped by a siphon. The assumption that it is just a trapped water, which some disputed at the award ceremony, is very likely correct. The entrance to the cave is at an altitude of 2036 meters, so the siphon is 1111 meters above sea level. The altitude of the final siphons in Renejevo brezno, in P 4 and in Brezno pod Žičnico, which may all be the level of the central Kanin aquifer, is approximately 1030 meters, and from the depth of Matt siphon in Rene, we know that this aquifer is at least 82 meters deep. As Trnuljčica has already already advanced very close to P 4, there is about 80 meters of additional depth to gain in Trnuljčica, to the terminal siphon.
55076. Another view above the northern part of this village, with a multi-storey sky
55078. View of the lake from the Cvinger lookout
55079. The water in front of Velika Karlovica was quite high, reaching ...
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From Ljubljana to Vranja jama, February 28 to March 6, 2025
Matejeva jama na meji, March 16, 2025
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