Črna near Kamnik. SKALA
Along the regional road Kamnik-Črnivec-Gornji grad below Velika planina at the start of the strung-out village Podstudenec a rock protrudes after the first hairpin, which at first glance was a completely ordinary rock, partially overgrown with hazel bushes. So my friend and I waited there for the first time a few months ago, parked by the road and closely inspected this monument. Interesting! A dirty granite stone without visible inscription and concrete base overgrown with horsetail really looked like a sticking-out natural rock - a rock that is abandoned and dedicated to the first fighter and national hero Peter Stante-Skala, who fatally crashed here in a traffic accident in 1980. Immediately I recall that Peter Stante-Skala was also deputy commander of the 2nd group of detachments and led fighters across Davovec in 1942. ,,This needs renovating, I thought, and right away in spring before the bushes green up! Well, this renovation comes to mind on the day when our comrades and patriots in Jelenov žleb near Ribnica revive memories of the partisan battle, where a month ago right-wing extremists committed a crime against the monument and Slovenian culture. So on Saturday 25.3.2017 in the morning we load into the old Renault 5 tools from A to Z, everything needed, and drive east for a trip, stopping in Kamnik to buy snacks and detergent for cleaning the rock. So we arrive at the place where the abandoned monument will be renovated. ,,Let's go step by step with the work: First soak the monument, meanwhile saw the overgrown bushes, dig out horsetail from the concrete foundation, dig a little path and steps for access. It starts well, so in a few hours we did even more than we thought we could manage that day, namely when the monument was cleaned-washed it dried quickly on the sunny side so I could soon tackle writing the inscription, while comrade Ljuba took the military spade and went to dig some flowers somewhere. I was curious what flowers would grow there from now on, when suddenly I spot her with a whole bunch of daffodils with soil and bulbs included, which she dug up somewhere behind the stream. This good work finished for us simultaneously, me with the inscription on the monument, her with arranging the surroundings and planting daffodils. In the end we just couldn't look enough at this change and beauty of the monument, which means a lot for our history.
Ivan Krivec