The age of dr. Johannes Frischauf can be identified with the
`classical' age of mountaineering in the Julian and Savinjske Alps.
Dr. Frischauf, although himself a member of the Austrian Touring Club,
helped and used his influence to make and maintain trails and paths
through Turski zleb (see figure; until today, this path hasn't
chnaged much of its appearance and still looks more or less the same),
on Grintovec, Skuta, on Ojstrica from Luce and Robanov kot,
to Mlinarsko sedlo over Ravni, and from the Rinka waterfall to Okreselj.
He also helped to build the mountain huts on Kokrsko sedlo and Suhi dol
in 1875; the latter is still known under `Frischauf's Old Hut',
and was in fact the very first hut in the Savinjske Alps.
In the following years, two further huts were built, on Korosica and Okreselj. Because dr. Frischauf had a very tolerant attitude towards the Slovenians (which was not a very common practice in those days), his fellow Germans obstructed his work; even some Slovenians failed to understand him. Since alpine activities in the Savinjske Alps was, as in other places, bound to cooperation with the local people, he tried to educate them as mountain guides and led them (or they led him) to practically all peaks of the Savinjske Alps. Fran Kocbek (mentioned before), a teacher from Gornji Grad and later the chief of the Savinjske Alpe Mountaineering Society outlet, was also helping him a lot. Dr. Frischauf's major work is the Savinjske Alpe from 1877, but he also wrote for the German alpine magazines. He also hiked in the Julian Alps and initiated the Croatian Mountaineering Society.
(Adapted after T. Strojin's Outline of Alpine History.)
