Alpine Association of Slovenia

The Alpine Association of Slovenia (Slovene: Planinska zveza Slovenije) is the association of volunteer Alpine clubs (planinsko društvo) providing the conditions for the development and exercising of mountaineering and hill walking in Slovenia and abroad.

As of October 2015, the association included 287 branches (mountaineering/hill walking clubs, mountain rescue stations, etc.

It maintained 2008 mountain trails with a total length of over 10,000 km (6,200 mi) (of this, 80 long-distance trails) and 179 mountain lodges and bivouac shelters with c. 7,400 beds.

[1] It was established in June 1948 in Ljubljana and is the successor of the Slovene Alpine Club (Slovensko planinsko društvo), established in Ljubljana on 27 February 1893.

The Alpine Publishing House, operating under the auspices of the Association, publishes mountain hiking maps and guides, professional and belletristic literature, and, since 1895, the monthly mountaineering magazine Planinski Vestnik (Alpine Gazette).