Field exercise
This friday we had our meeting on the field. Besides regular caving equipment we took mattock and shovel plus food and drinks. We drove to a promising breathing hole guarded by a rockfall. While some were better at digging the others were better at eating and drinking but everyone was in a really good mood. Peaceful night in forest was disturbed by: Rajko, Marjan, Sten, Jure, Goran, Aleš, Miran, Urška, Izi, Roman in Matjaž.
Sport day in cave Bisernica
We arranged with Elementary school Prestranek to have a caving sport day. We took 15 pupils to cave Bisernica. The cave is short but the descent down the ladders, moving around the cave and ascend up the ladders took us four hours. Participants: Urška, Goran, Aleš, Miran, Matjaž.
Cave Gabranca
Cave Gabranca is famous for it's variable water level. An ample rainfall can change a 200m deep cave in a gushing spring. Consequently an exceptional drought that has been going on could let us progress even deeper in the cave. Hoping for the best we descended in the cave.
World Clean Up 2012
Members of DZRJ Luka Čeč have participated in World Cleanup project. This time our goal was to clean the cave "Mačkovec" near village Veliki Otok. In a realtively small cave there is a huge pile of waste due to the fact that the cave is in close proximity of houses and that Veliki Otok got organized waste management only fifteen years ago. Judging by the state of waste cave wasn't used as a depot since then and we were spared of handling decomposing remainings. The cleanup was still no picnic.
Breakthrough in cave in Ždink
After several years of exploration in cave Jama v Ždinku, we finally made a break through on 9.10.2011 . We got through a squeeze in a pit and descended 12 m deep to a river bed. Participants on were Jure, Sten and Margon. We were in cave from 14:00 to 17:30. While we were at it we surveyed the new parts of cave. Sten used his pocket topo with distoX for the first time in cave and made 158 measures. The cave is 80m long and 20m deep.
Surveying the Žabja cave
We have found several caves on plateau Ravnik in past few years but left surveying for later. It was about time we took it up and besides some of us have yet to learn surveying caves. The first on our list was Žabja cave. It's a small and still active cave with facets on walls and no drip-stones. The water level rises high enough to leave branches and plastic bags hanging from the ceiling.
International expedition Kačna cave
Third international caving expedition took place in Kačna Cave this year. The cave has good potential for the longest cave in Slovenia. Explorers were mostly Czech cavers that arrived in town Divača on 30th July. This years expedition was rather successful as they made a major break through. They dived through a 400m long siphon II at the end of "Rov za zrcalom" (shaft behind the mirror). After this siphon there is a dry part followed by a 90m siphon III and after that another dry part. They stopped at siphon IV. Members of JD Rakek and DZRJ Luka Čeč joined to help on Saturday 13th August.
Tabor JD Rakek
This weekend members of caving club JD Rakek went to forests of Snežnik to find and explore new caves. They went on their way on friday afternoon while I was going to join them on sathurday morning. With a printed map and a proximate coordinates on GPS I somehow found them after an hour and a half.