*Impacts of Human Activities on the High Mountain Landscape of the Tatras… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105601*

impassable for tourists and inappropriate also from the point of view of tourist safety, it constitutes an obstacle for tourists to be bypassed. This is how parallel replacement trails are created. In the studied area, the trails are accompanied by a number of parallel trails and shortcuts. The term parallel trail was originally used for a trail trodden by animals (e.g. chamois, cattle, etc.). Parallel trails were also created by trampling the vegetation cover when tourists walked off the trail. Parallel trails arise more often on small slopes, mainly in the grassland type of landscape, which allows tourists to deviate from the trail (**Figure 14** [55]). A trail with shortcuts is created mainly in places where the trail leads from saddles into valleys and has sharp turns – serpentines. New shortcuts as secondary trails have been created by undisciplined tourists close to the place of the largest curvature (bend) of the hiking trail to shorten their journey. The shortcuts are connected perpendicularly to the trails. They go in the direction of the greatest slope, thus conditioning the formation of erosion (**Figure 15**) [55].
