SI:
Vabimo na obisk obvozne ceste čez Vršič. Ker je cesta, ki jo čez Vršič uporabljamo danes, imenovana Ruska cesta, bi obvozno cesto lahko imenovali tudi obvozna Ruska cesta. Nič ne bi bilo narobe celo, če bi ji rekli nova Ruska cesta, saj je bila zgrajena kasneje kot sedanja Ruska cesta.
Obe cesti so v času prve svetovne vojne zgradili za potrebe oskrbe frontne črte na Soči. A čemu dve cesti čez en prelaz? Za prvotno traso, po kateri teče današnja Ruska cesta, so uporabili smer stare gozdarske poti, čez najnižjo točko prelaza. Spomladi 1916, ob koncu prve zime po odprtju ceste, pa je njeno uporabo onemogočil velik snežni plaz. Za oskrbo vojske na Soči sta bili cesta in tovorna žičnica nujni, zato so se nemudoma lotili izdelave obvozne ceste in tudi obvozne žičnice. Nova trasa ceste se je v veliki meri izognila nevarnosti snežnih plazov in so jo zato lahko uporabljali vse leto. Ločeno od Ruske ceste je potekala med 16. in 27. serpentino Ruske ceste (če uporabimo današnje oštevilčenje serpentin).
Prvotna trasa ima skupaj 50 serpentin (ostrih, oštevilčenih ovinkov). Obvozna cesta jih je imela skupaj kar 69.
ENG:
We are inviting you to visit the Bypass Road across Vršič pass. Since the road we nowdays use to cross Vršič pass is called the Ruska cesta, the bypass road could also be called the Russian Bypass Road. It would not be wrong even to call it the New Russian Road, since it was built later than the current ‘Ruska cesta’. Both roads were built during the First World War to supply the front line in the Soča valley. But why two roads to cross one pass? The direction of the old forestry route has been used for the original route, along which today's ‘Ruska cesta’ runs - across the lowest point of the pass. In the spring of 1916, at the end of the first winter after the opening of the road, a large avalanche made its use impossible. Since the road and the freight cable car were vital for supplying the army, military authorities immediately decided to build a bypass road and also a bypass cable car. The route of the new road largely avoided the danger of avalanches and could therefore be used all year round. It ran separated from the ‘Russian road’ between the 16th and 27th hairpin bends of the Russian road (if we use today's numbering). The original route has a total of 50 hairpin bends form Kranjska Gora to Trenta. The bypass road had a total of 69!
Slika 1: Ruska cesta v zgornjem delu slike in cik-cak obvozne ali Nove Ruske ceste v srednjem delu slike - kakor ju zazna sistem LIDAR. Z rdečo puščico je označen odcep Obvozne od Ruske ceste. /
Image 1: The ’Ruska cesta’ (Russian road) in the upper part of the image and the zigzag of the Bypass or New Russian Road in the middle part of the image - as detected by the LIDAR system. The turn-off of Bypass road from Ruska cesta is marked with a red arrow.
Slika 2: Satelitski posnetek istega območja kot je na sliki 1. Tudi tu je obvozna cesta na kranjskogorski strani še dobro vidna.
Image 2: Satellite image of the same area as at the image 1. Even here, the bypass road on the Kranjska Gora side is still clearly visible.
SI:
Prvotna trasa ceste, ki je v uporabi tudi danes, je imela v času izgradnje od Kranjske Gore do prelaza maksimalni naklon 10,8% in povprečni 7,25%. Naklon ceste je bil strogo omejen, da so strmino lahko premagale konjske vprege, ki so vlekle topove in ostale težke tovore. Cesto z majhnim naklonom je bilo mogoče preko strmega pobočja speljati le s pomočjo okljukov, oziroma serpentin.
Ta, na kateri je skrit zaklad, je prva na obvozni cesti, če prištejemo še tiste pod njo, na spodnje delu Ruske ceste, bi bila sedemnajsta.
ENG:
The original route of the road, which is still in use today, had a maximum gradient of 10.8% and an average of 7.25% from Kranjska Gora to the pass when it was built. The slope of the road was strictly limited so that horse-drawn carts pulling cannons and other heavy loads could overcome the steepness. The road with a small gradient could only be made over the steep slope with the help of hairpin bends.
The one on which the geocache is hidden is the first on the Bypass Road. If we added the ones below it, on the lower part of the Russian road, it would be the seventeenth.
Slika 3: Serpentina obvozne ali nove ruske ceste – prva na obvozni cesti in skupaj sedemnajsta od Kranjske Gore.
Image 3: The hairpin bend of the bypass or New Russian road - the first on the bypass road and the seventeenth in total from Kranjska Gora.
Lidar in satelitski posnetek / Lidar and satelite images: Atlas okolja
Foto: Vane, kompaski