The Logar Valley (Slovene: Logarska dolina) is a valley in the Kamnik Alps, in the Municipality of Solčava, Slovenia. The name is derived from the Logar family, which in turn is derived from Log (see below).
Contents |
The Logar Valley lies in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and is divided into three parts. The lower part is named Log (literally, ‘swampy meadow’), the middle part Plest (a mostly wooded area), and the upper part Kot (literally 'cirque'; it is a wooded area with scree slopes). Altogether 35 people live on the isolated farmsteads in the valley. In 1987, the valley received protected status as a landscape park encompassing 24 km².[1]
The Logar Valley is ringed by the following peaks: Strelovec (1763 m), Krofička (2083 m), Ojstrica (2350 m), Lučka Baba (2244 m), Planjava (2394 m), Brana (2252 m), Turska gora (2251 m), and Mrzla gora (2203 m). It terminates in a head wall beneath the Okrešelj Cirque, where the Savinja River starts at an ice-cold spring at an elevation of 1280 meters and flows to the Rinka Falls.
Although the Logar Valley is not particularly narrow (about 500 m at its narrowest), inversions are very common due to the influence of a northern anticyclone. Temperature distributions on the slopes are greatly influenced by differences between the sunny and shady areas, which is seen in different snow and ice conditions in the winter.
A walking path (2–3 hours) through the valley leads past a number of points of interest: the source of Črna creek, wooden logging chutes, a burl-covered ash tree, a charcoal-maker’s hut, and other sights.
|
|||||||||||||||||||