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Dear Mr. Zlatko!

Let me express my deep and sincere respect to all those who with their great effort and enthusiasm created this magical corner in the wilderness of our beautiful mountains. Unfortunately today in the mountains there are no longer those values as there used to be. I'm sad that young people (not all, but many of them) today pass by you on the mountain path as if they don't see you and although it's right that they greet their elders, it doesn't happen. I miss the shouts of joy when you laboriously reach the summit. When I did it myself a few times, I got surprised looks from the young. Today the goal is to reach the top in the shortest time, because that's what counts most, what you take from such a hike is another question. Yesterday I was returning from Velika Baba via the Hunting Path from Ledine and I was thinking how many hours of volunteer work are needed to lay such a path...and that's just one...do we hikers, for whom it seems self-evident to go on a marked mountain path, even think how many people sweated on that path so that we can visit the mountains? If everyone realized this, out of respect for them they wouldn't throw away even the smallest piece of paper, let alone all the other things we're witnessing.

I think the real problem today is people's attitude towards nature, who express disrespect for it in various other ways, not by posting a video that some got stuck on. If you don't raise a child from small and don't set an example with your behavior that you need to love and respect everything that grows and lives, they grow up into a person who doesn't care about nature or animals. With the author of this video, which I watched several times, I didn't have that feeling, quite the opposite. I go to Ute every year for soul food and I'm grateful to those who helped me find the way to this oasis of peace and quiet with their tips. What you wrote about trash and other sad and
condemnable testimonies of homo sapiens presence is a general problem of our mountains. If you want the shepherd's hut under Ute to remain hidden, you should first abolish social networks, and secondly I don't know why the bivouac with space for two people is unlocked if people shouldn't visit it.
Last but not least, why shouldn't those who for some reason can't access them personally have the opportunity to see the beauty of our country. I can only say that I am immeasurably grateful and humble that the mountains still allow me among them.