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Most of the time, the isn't anything available to use to clean it up. No broom, no firewood/kindling/matches available to light the stove. If its available, I use, bring an armload of firewood in etc... Be careful who you accuse of not doing their part. I'm vice Pres of our club, cook at every wing night, and stake 8 km of field trail every year.

Cannabis use on trails is just as dangerous as beer drinking along with speeding around bends. They all produce litter in the form of beer cans, brain debris and broken sled parts.

Remove all risk and leave the beer at home or the room! Problem solved, crisis averted.

I also said If the club doesn't have enough respect for the hut to replace a broken light bulb, or to have a stove pipe replaced etc... why should I. I will lite the stove, and sweep up if the tools necessary to do it are there. I don't carry around on my sled a broom, shovel, kindling, and firewood. I do however carry matches and paper to light a stove should the facility exist that permits it. What is to appreciate in a hut where I cant warm up and the lights don't work

How about you clean up as appreciation for it being there in the first place. Rather than expect a club volunteer to do it for you.

I dont drink so my only interest here is the litter. I HATE litter of any and all kinds it digusts me. That said most sledders like a beer or two. IMO the real solve is to cater to that without punishing them and most will carry their empties back out with them. From what I have seen the BEER empties are tossed because of legal risks. Remove the risks and you'll see them mostly carried out same as the rest of the littler we all carry in and out of the bush. Its the empties that are most prominent because of the risk, not because they want to litter.

On trail enforcement might help, but until we, as the responsible snowmobiling community AND the clubs make our concerns known, the OPP will likely be unaware that there IS a problem. They're already slammed because of their enforcement of the speed limits on the trails, for crying out loud. I think a RIDE checkpoint somewhere on the Abitibi Canyon would go over like a lead balloon. Most of these idiots have deep pockets.....pool their $$$ to pay the speeding fine of the first guy in line who gets nailed. Or hand over $1000 in cash to the rider whose sled you've clipped when you missed that corner....to keep it from being reported to the cops. Every year I find new reasons to give up riding AND volunteering.

It's a problem for me if you're not done riding, and I'm on the same trails at the same time as you. I just don't think it's right. We've (almost) all had our youthful silly moments of drinking then driving when we were younger, myself included. I remember a late afternoon/evening ride that a friend of mine and I went on from KL to Sesekinika Resort, had a bowl of chili and a beer. Just one. I very much disliked the feeling of riding a sled after having only one, I could feel I wasn't myself and didn't enjoy it a bit. I haven't had a drink before sledding since. I'll think nothing of having a couple of glasses of wine during/after supper, then driving 3 blocks to the house (after a 2 hour stay after supper), because the sensations aren't the same as on a sled. It's difficult to explain.

Maybe it's just me but when I am out sledding I have no desire to have a beer while out riding, once back at the hotel, different story lol, To each their own I guess, It is frustrating to see empty cans all over on the trails though.

I know people that i would not get in a car with unless they smoked pot.