Logar Valley

The Logar Valley is a valley in the Kamnik Alps, in the Municipality of Solčava, Slovenia. The Slovene name for the valley is of relatively recent coinage and is derived from the Logar Farm, which in turn is derived from log . In 1987, the valley received protected status as a landscape park encompassing.GeographyThe Logar Valley is a typical U-shaped glacial valley. It is divided into three parts. The lower part is named Log, the middle part Plest or Plestje (it is a mostly wooded area), and the upper part Kot (literally 'cirque') or Ogradec (it is a wooded area with scree slopes). Altogether 35 people live on the isolated farmsteads in the valley.PeaksThe Logar Valley is ringed by the following peaks: Strelovec (1763m), Krofička (2083m), Ojstrica (2350m), Lučka Baba (2244m), Planjava (2394m), Brana (2252m), Turska Gora (2251m), and Mrzla Gora (2203m). It terminates in a head wall beneath the Okrešelj Cirque, where the Savinja River starts at an ice-cold spring at an elevation of 1,280 meters and flows to Rinka Falls.