Littering in the mountains and cleaning
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| keber18. 09. 2011 22:57:54 |
Still hikers like to throw a plastic bottle or a can into the bushes (or not even that far), because after carrying it full the whole path, it's just too much to deliver the empty one to the valley. Just pigs, yuck and shame.
I'm wondering, do others ever clean up larger stuff for others? For example today on Kriška gora I picked up a large plastic bottle thrown among the spruces and cans next to the path. I had the feeling they weren't thrown just today, and quite a few people passed by them who "didn't see" them (at the top there are several containers for packaging available). I seriously feel that people "don't see" trash because it's not their concern, this was confirmed for me also when this year along the path to Kamniško sedlo I picked up an empty motor oil can next to the path, which had been lying there since the previous year (based on the imprint in the ground), and no one "managed" to notice it.
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| Karletto9. 09. 2011 09:23:58 |
you really have it.. I also don't understand how some 'forget' even a peeled-off sole from the Gojzers.  Surely s/he felt it when it peeled off. 
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| ljubitelj gora9. 09. 2011 21:20:42 |
I have to say that our mountains are really nicely cleaned, most hikers regularly carry their trash back to the valley and empty it there or take it home.
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| keber19. 09. 2011 23:04:38 |
That's why I don't get how for half a year nobody "saw" the oil can next to the heavily visited path.
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| bostjanp11. 09. 2011 11:26:57 |
I don't understand people who go to the mountains and their conscience doesn't even prick them when they throw trash wherever they like. Some even bathe and soap in the Triglav Lakes and thus destroy the fauna!!! The word pigs is too nice for such hikers/mountaineers. No problem to crush a small/plastic bottle and stuff it back in the backpack, where it takes much less space and weight than at the start. Maybe some are disgusted to carry trash back down... Folks, hills and mountains are not a dump, it's living space for many living beings, we hikers are just their visitors and behave like visitors. Have you ever gone to visit someone and littered their apartment/house? I'm convinced you surely haven't.
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| neph11. 09. 2011 12:11:12 |
I think our mountains are quite clean given the visitation. Many hikers even clean up after those who throw something away.
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| joža x11. 09. 2011 12:35:39 |
I often pick up trash I come across on marked paths and take it to the valley, I don't care who threw it and why. But I'd say to people who litter in the mountains you can't say hikers/mountaineers, they are at most useless tourists who don't know what to do with time and money.
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| bostjanp11. 09. 2011 13:22:47 |
I agree with you, joža x, that about tourists.
Yeah, and this doesn't add up for me. Why did stamps disappear, and moreover, stamps at summits besides logbooks? This will never be clear to me, what does someone need a stamp at home???
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| neph11. 09. 2011 18:31:04 |
Some have a distorted taste regarding souvenirs from their adventures...
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| jprim11. 09. 2011 18:38:20 |
About clean parts of our mountains, some pigs.... really haven't seen on our paths yet, towards Austrians - starting point for Stol, even baby diapers next to the path and ...
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| Andrej54. 03. 2012 21:14:44 |
Will we clean our mountains on 24.3. as part of the clean Slovenia campaign?
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| katty4. 03. 2012 21:18:15 |
It would be great if we organized in that direction . The initiative is really interesting, with a suitable number of people I would join too.
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| Flora14. 03. 2012 21:18:57 |
offtopic: Andrej5 - you have ZS.
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| Hribovc884. 03. 2012 21:21:47 |
CLEANING ACTION
Mountaineering Association Mislinja invites on Saturday 24.03.2012 to the Slovenian cleaning action "LET'S CLEAN SLOVENIA"
More at: http://www.pdmislinja.si
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| lynx5. 03. 2012 09:58:41 |
If it stays with the snow as it is, then cleaning higher paths shouldn't be such a problem either.
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| heinz5. 03. 2012 20:47:45 |
But it's also possible to do something useful with our digital cameras. You take a photo, send it to the right address (local news, ecologists without borders etc.) and maybe something moves.. Just today I passed a place where a decades-old car shell was dumped (one of the paths to Jelenkamen), which I photographed and sent the pics to a certain address. In less than a month after publication in local news, the thing was finally cleaned up. (in the bottom left corner there is a small photo showing today's - current state, the larger one was taken last month..)
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| Andrej56. 03. 2012 16:03:37 |
Our mountains are not so polluted, Slovenia's hills though are. If there's some organized action for the mountains I might join. Everyone can take up picking up trash themselves. Smaller PVC wrappers, lids, parts of poles would be found.
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| Tadej16. 11. 2019 12:20:52 |
During construction of the new logging road these "flowers" appeared at the start of Born's path...
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| Tadej22. 01. 2020 17:32:47 |
In the Cerkljansko area...
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| rok.si22. 01. 2020 21:19:57 |
Ugh, there used to be rusty washing machines, Fiats, scrapped fridges in forests... now luckily I almost don't see that here anymore, but sadly tons of plastic bottles and beer cans, from my local Boč I've carried down a good amount already, doubt they'll disappear soon... Forest is grateful and occasionally puts a mushroom, raspberry or strawberry in front of my feet
High mountains we value and respect more, trash up there is rare.
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| serajko22. 01. 2020 22:17:25 |
Tadej above is picture of milk packaging. Does anyone happen to know how many years ago it was used :I think it's close to 50 years already. Now we see how durable plastic is
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