First of all, if it had seemed too dangerous to me, I wouldn't have gone into the glacier, but I neither saw nor heard any falling rocks, so I went, and my intention is also to describe what the glacier is like, because there is very little information on the passability of a dry glacier. Over Kotel, unfortunately, it's almost twice as long a path. Especially on foot from Dovje, it's not short. Given that everything was in question, I didn't want to go somewhere where I had no plan B. The path to bivouac 4 also drags terribly, and I would rather take the path over Kriška stena. From the notch, I didn't see a nice way into Kotel; everything is somewhat collapsed.
@di, it should be around 45-50 degrees; at least one guide states so, the distance is about 150 m, with scree about 300 m, at least as I measured.
Alpha, the descent was really unpleasant, but you're exaggerating a bit with the beastly yelling. I yelled reflexively (in fear) because a rock slipped under me, and I badly scratched my arm and hit my back. The rest that was heard was me talking to myself. I would have prevented the fall if I had known how to smuggle the poles on the bus without the driver nagging me to put the backpack in the luggage compartment, and that's how they stole them from me a few years ago. It was nice then to ascend 2500 m without poles... and to this day I walk without them, because I don't know where to get new ones like those good ones, and I don't know how to hide them in the backpack so they wouldn't be seen. I miss them on every descent.
The fact is that I don't like to walk the same path, and I'm also limited by public transport only to Bohinjsko and the "gornjesavsko" valley, as well as to two-day tours. Huts have been fully booked since 2021, so I choose tours with bivouacs, and accordingly the tours, and this is one of the more recent new ones until Mali Oltar, Oltarček, Visoki Rokav, Široka peč, etc., become accessible to me.
I would be glad for information on where to go in picture 16. Along the visible gully or more to the left?