Alessio action??? How cheeky, not to say insolent, to call Alessio and trail markers in general to action.
Marking is not just painting marks; it's also repairing paths after heavy rains, avalanches and rockfalls in walls, and that's not work on the Ljubljana Moor, Prekmurje plain or perhaps Vipava Valley. That's hours and hours of work—voluntary of course, dangerous... I know Alessio personally well; in the western Julian Alps I met him most often laden with pickaxe, shovel, chainsaw, i.e., in action. I wouldn't even comment if by chance some ten years ago I hadn't helped mark and clean exactly that path you mention; as proof, there are also a couple of Knafelc marks in between—I doubt you noticed them
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Really, it's easiest to criticize someone, do nothing even for yourself, let alone for others. Just tell me, how many cairns did you build along the path where you didn't notice the marks—for yourself, for the return or for future hikers who might have even bigger orientation problems than us? For such marking there's no need to carry paint or brush; material usually gets delivered to the place where it's needed. I don't know what else people want, to have a red and white line painted from the parking lot to the goal—God forbid interrupted
. Nowadays so much literature is available, and on the internet, good maps (Tabacco for western Julians) where you have everything; just take a little time to read, study—in short, prepare for the tour in the true sense of the word. But there is another solution—a mountain guide for leading in high mountains in all conditions and for alpinistic climbs an alpine guide. We have several of the latter highly valued in the world, but that's another story. Hats off to Alessio and friends; I think such a team as Alessio's really shouldn't be sending appeals for action—rather lay a stone on stone yourself. Greater joy gives me a small stone cairn by the path than meeting a headless hiker who complains that the path on which he is just returning from the summit—the same one—is poorly marked. Nice mountain greeting and safe travels, Sly.