Little Susy in a Wide Moory Basin just below the Main Crest of the Gorski Kotar Dinaric Alps; Platak, Rijeka, Primorsko-Goranska Županja, Hrvatska
02-March-2025
Veliki Pribeniš, is the largest of the 3 open-air basins (Polje) located in the geological groove in which the Platak locality is.
Platak (1110m a.s.l.) is a small ski resort north-east of the regional capital, Rijeka, below the western part of the Dinaric Alps main watershed ridge that ia a part of the Gorski Kotar Croatian mountain region.
Here of the 3 main elevations the highest is missing, Mount Risnjak (1528m a.s.l.), which is located slightly further east and inland than Guslica and Snježnik, present here, as per notes, with their shelters that seem very large on rather small peaks and a short distance away.
For some, the highest peak in Gorski Kotar is Bjelolasica (Kula peak, 1534m a.s.l.) located in the far east of the region on a mountain range, Velika Kapela, on the regional border with Lika and Ogulin, and which for many is to be considered separate.
These basins are very windy in case of Bora/Bura being at the first jump or step towards the Gulf of Kvarner and therefore the Adriatic that calls it.
When the wind stops, with a starry sky, there are strong nocturnal thermal inversions that have probably prevented or limited the development of complex plants, such as trees, freezing the porous limestone soil in depth.
Partially thermophilic Beech trees (Fagus sylvatica var dinarica) surround these basins, but none grow inside them, where probably only Birch and Scotch Pine could (...), which however are not present nearby nor in the direction of the bora/bura, which is the first and most important factor in the transport of seeds and in mixing essences belonging to various climatic zones.
Little Susy in a Wide Moory Basin just below the Main Crest of the Gorski Kotar Dinaric Alps; Platak, Rijeka, Primorsko-Goranska Županja, Hrvatska
02-March-2025
Veliki Pribeniš, is the largest of the 3 open-air basins (Polje) located in the geological groove in which the Platak locality is.
Platak (1110m a.s.l.) is a small ski resort north-east of the regional capital, Rijeka, below the western part of the Dinaric Alps main watershed ridge that ia a part of the Gorski Kotar Croatian mountain region.
Here of the 3 main elevations the highest is missing, Mount Risnjak (1528m a.s.l.), which is located slightly further east and inland than Guslica and Snježnik, present here, as per notes, with their shelters that seem very large on rather small peaks and a short distance away.
For some, the highest peak in Gorski Kotar is Bjelolasica (Kula peak, 1534m a.s.l.) located in the far east of the region on a mountain range, Velika Kapela, on the regional border with Lika and Ogulin, and which for many is to be considered separate.
These basins are very windy in case of Bora/Bura being at the first jump or step towards the Gulf of Kvarner and therefore the Adriatic that calls it.
When the wind stops, with a starry sky, there are strong nocturnal thermal inversions that have probably prevented or limited the development of complex plants, such as trees, freezing the porous limestone soil in depth.
Partially thermophilic Beech trees (Fagus sylvatica var dinarica) surround these basins, but none grow inside them, where probably only Birch and Scotch Pine could (...), which however are not present nearby nor in the direction of the bora/bura, which is the first and most important factor in the transport of seeds and in mixing essences belonging to various climatic zones.