Paints for renewing markings on SPP

Cooperation of Helios, Olympic Committee of Slovenia and Alpine Association of Slovenia

Olympic Committee of Slovenia – Association of Sports Federations and Helios have been partners for 14 years in the renovation of sports

facilities. Since they successfully collaborated with the Alpine Association of Slovenia (PZS) already in 2002 within the campaign

Markirajmo Slovenijo, and in previous years also in the renovation of several mountain facilities, the partners will this year

allocate funds for the renovation of sports facilities in the form of benefits for member federations to the Alpine Association of Slovenia. It will

thus renovate markings on the route of the Slovenian

Mountain Trail with Helios paints worth 7,000.00 euros net, the oldest long-distance trail in Slovenia and the world.

Helios and Olympic Committee of Slovenia – Association of Sports Federations provide paints and protective coatings every year to sports federations and their members across Slovenia

that they need for the renovation of sports projects. With the project, Helios and

OKS – Association of Sports Federations wish to contribute to the renovation of various sports facilities intended for both professional and

recreational sports activities. In the fourteen-year cooperation, over 17,000 litres of paints and coatings have been

allocated for the renovation of sports facilities.

We have already repainted and protected 70 facilities across Slovenia. This year

the renovation of the Sports Home in Ravne na Koroškem will also be completed, where paints worth 4,500 euros were received already last

year.

The Alpine Association of Slovenia, which will receive paints this time for the renovation of markings, is one of the largest and most mass non-governmental

organisations in Slovenia and unites 57,520 individual members and 278 mountaineering clubs/associations that maintain 176

mountain huts, bivouacs and shelters and voluntarily care for over 9,000 kilometres of hiking trails with PZS markers,

which is how many there are in Slovenia. This year the Alpine Association celebrates two important anniversaries. On Wednesday, 27 February, it

celebrated the 120th anniversary of the foundation of the Slovenian Alpine Association (27. 2. 1893), whose legal successor is the Alpine

Association of Slovenia. In summer they will celebrate 60 years of the Slovenian Mountain Trail, which was opened on 1 August 1953 as "Slovenian

Alpine Transversal No. 1" from Maribor to Ankaran and was the first such hiking trail in the world.

The honourable anniversary, the 60th anniversary of the Slovenian Mountain Trail, as the transversal is now called, will be honoured by PZS with

numerous events, among others they will ensure safer visiting of mountains within the PZS Commission for Hiking Trails

by renovating or newly marking on the Slovenian Mountain Trail, which is as long as 599 km and has 75 checkpoints, the hiking trails with

deficient or already faded red-white Knafelc markings. For the renovation,

they anticipate using 400 litres of red and 200 litres of white paint.

The markers of the Alpine Association of Slovenia, who perform their work voluntarily and there are 598 of them in Slovenia including trainee markers,

will undertake the renovation in several stages. Namely:

- On Saturday, 1. 6. 2013, when the planned marking location is from Zelenice to Mojstrana (to the Slovenian Alpine

Museum). That day there will also be the 1st Tončkov day in memory of the late PZS vice-president Tone Tomše and long-time

head of the PZS Commission for Hiking Trails.

- On Saturday and Sunday, 6.–7. 7. 2013, when a general action will take place on the entire Slovenian Mountain Trail on

those sections that need renovation. Reserve date: 13.–14. 7. 2013.

You are invited to join them and get to know the work of PZS markers. To join the actions, arrange with PZS.

We are proud of the cooperation and support shown also in the past and wish to continue it in the future as well.

Helios Domžale, d. d.

Uroš Slavinec, Managing Director

Alpine Association of Slovenia

Bojan Rotovnik, President

Olympic Committee of Slovenia –

Association of Sports Federations

dr. Janez Kocijančič, President