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henkw
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Mount Kanin Slovenia
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September 08, 2007, 09:28:41 AM »
In August, I went with my family to Istria/Croatia and we decided to go one day to the Julian Alps in Slovenia.
Because it was a long drive from the coast, we had to find out how to get quickly above tree line. A cable car was the solution. Looking on the www, I found Mount Kanin.
KANIN CABLE CAR/Bovec.
Kanin is Slovenia’s highest and unique high-mountain ski resort, but also views extending to the Adriatic.
In summer, the upper station of the Kanin cable car is a very popular starting point for numerous mountain hiking tours and trips, The scenic trip with the panoramic cable car takes one from 439 m to 2,223 m offering unique views of the Julian Alps.
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Re: Mount Kanin Slovenia
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September 08, 2007, 10:06:21 AM »
Nice images and useful information on one of the less well known areas in the alps. Thanks! It is somewhere I have considered visiting - now I am more likely to go!
Most of the plants in the pictures are familiar, Cerastium sp, Potentilla nitida, Campanula cochlearifolia, Papaver sp, Thlaspi, Achillea, Gentiana verna, but what is the very pretty Saxifraga sp. Fantastic tight foliage, growing in a fissure in the rock?
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September 08, 2007, 10:17:06 AM »
As a reluctant house-cleaner, I am astonished and slighty horrified by the dazzling whiteness of the rocks-- makes me feel somehow inadequate
The plants stand out like beacons against the background, don't they, making for super photos.
These cable cars are very useful, are they not?
Potentilla nitida rubra is a favourite plant of ours. We have had one in the corner of one ofthe raised (concrete slab) beds for over twenty years.... once, when re-vamping the bed, we thought about moving the potentilla... we excavated carefully , down and down and down...when we discovered that its tap root went all the way to the base of the bed ( two feet/60cms) and still kept going, we decided to leave it where it was!
Then, of course, we were worried that our interference might have harmed the plant but it grows away, happy as ever, bless it.
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Re: Mount Kanin Slovenia
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September 08, 2007, 08:33:43 PM »
The Sax. looks like S. caesia just going over, if the foliage was grey. Otherwise Sax species are hard to identify. S. caesia loves limestone areas. I was in N Italy, Carnian Alps, and up on the border with Slovenia. It was limestone step at well over 2,000m and a treasure trove of plants, including S caesia. That was in 1990 and I would love to go back. I can't remember the name of the mountain, but it stretched into Slovenia.
More pictures please, Henk.
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September 08, 2007, 08:39:29 PM »
It is Saxifraga squarrosa. Lovely pictures.
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September 08, 2007, 10:40:26 PM »
A lovely trip Henk and beautiful plant images. The rock looks a little like marble?
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September 08, 2007, 10:49:05 PM »
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The rock looks a little like marble?
Yes, it does, especially in the Saxifraga shot where there is lovely marbled veining to it. Just limestone, though, isn't it?
Where is David Millward when we need him?
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!
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Re: Mount Kanin Slovenia
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September 09, 2007, 09:07:32 PM »
Thanks everybody for the nice words and plant names
Here are my last plant pictures, I was only one and a half hour on mount Kanin
, because the we had to take the last cable car. It was a bit too far to walk down and I had to drive all the way to the coast of Istria.
I think it is not Gentiana verna
, the G. verna I have seen was always growing on a very wet place. This Gentiana was not.
It was limestone, the marble-look was dirt. The limestone was very white you need to wear sunglasses, it was hurting your eyes!
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Re: Mount Kanin Slovenia
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My last picures
Some mountain impressions.
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September 09, 2007, 09:21:30 PM »
Henk, David Millward is a geologist. That is why I thought he could help with an opinion about the rock!
David posts in the forum and he also has excellent articles in the main site:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/monthfeature/march2005/content.html
http://www.srgc.org.uk/monthfeature/march2005/content.html
Really enjoying this "trip" with you , thanks.
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Re: Mount Kanin Slovenia
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October 11, 2007, 08:05:19 AM »
Yes, Saxifraga you asked about is squarossa.
This is not Gentiana verna but G. pumila.
There's no marble on this mountain. Only limestone
Nice photos!
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October 11, 2007, 08:57:34 AM »
I didn't get to this thread until now, so very glad it has been brought to attention. Fascinating pictures, to put it mildly. Must be an amazing place to visit.
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Re: Mount Kanin Slovenia
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October 11, 2007, 09:29:27 AM »
Great pictures, it does look amazing.
Isn't marble metamorphosed limestone - if so they may well look similar?
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October 11, 2007, 11:01:28 AM »
Sue, you're right. But in this case you can find there only Dachsteins lime stone from Triassic period.
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Re: Mount Kanin Slovenia
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October 11, 2007, 12:46:08 PM »
The yellow poppy could well be Papaver kerneri which grows exactly as shown in limestone scree. Could be P. burseri, though kerneri is the more likely to me. P. kerneri is common on the limestone screes in the Dolomites and Carnian Alps and on into Slovenia.
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