In 1893, Slovenes got their mountaineering organization – Slovene Mountaineering Society, main principle of which was national defense against Germans in Slovenian mountains. By organizing hiking trails and building cabins, the German mountaineering societies that worked in Slovenia, felt entitled to Slovenian mountains. Among other things they educated mountain guides. The Slovene Mountaineering Society opposed them on several areas – it was building its own cabins and organizing its own hiking trails. Soon after it was founded it started to educate its own mountain guides and through the Mountaineering gazette tried to inform and educate its members. Already in the first decade of the 20th century the Slovene Mountaineering Society managed restore the “Slovenian character” of Slovenian mountains. After World War I the Slovene Mountaineering Society was a more economically oriented organization, so particularly the youth didn’t find itself in the society and founded a “hiking” society – Hiking club Skala. Skala is largely credited for the rapid rise of Slovenian alpinism. As the initiator of skiing in the 1920s it largely contributed to Slovenians being not only a mountain/alpine, but also a skiing nation. This was achieved with various educational activities in this field.