Alojz Knafelc

At first he worked as a drawer for the project of constructing the railway connection between Hrpelje and Kozina.

He also wrote the instructions on path-blazing, published in 1922 in the Alpine Gazette (Slovene: Planinski vestnik).

The Knafelc blaze, introduced in 1922, is a white dot inside a red ring.

A variant with a yellow dot in the center is used for the European long-distance paths E6 and E7.

The Knafelc blaze (Knafelčeva markacija) was later used all over Yugoslavia and is prescribed for Slovenia by the 2007 Mountain Paths Act (Zakon o planinskih poteh).

Alojz Knafelc in the 1920s
The Knafelc blaze
Breg, the old part of Novo Mesto along the Krka River
Breg, the old part of Novo Mesto along the Krka River