b'Trails ReportBy Matt Tetreault, VAST Trails Administrator candy bar wrappers, handwarmerfor hundreds of years. Either way,recreation we enjoy with our families wrappers, etc. are what really upsetthe aluminum and other odd metalsand friends. Many other activities the landowners and cause trailthat make up todays cans will not behave been cancelled thanks to a global closures. VAST supports the Safepulled from the hay with a magnet pandemic. May we all do our part to Riders Campaign, which preaches Zerobecause those metals arent magnetic!make certain our form of recreation Tolerance for alcohol while operatingThe cows eat the hay and ingest theis not cancelled. We can help do our any sort of motorized vehicle,small pieces of metal cans, whichpart with the global pandemic, but including snowmobiles, so beer cansin turn cut the inside lining of theirwe cannot single handedly stop it should not be an issue anyway, butstomach. This causes a slow andcompletely as snowmobilers. The good they are. Soda cans will have the samepainful death to the cow. Although mynews is that trail trash can be stopped result, so lets say you are riding withquick search could not find statisticsby us snowmobilers if we pick up after your buddies, and you stop to havefor the United States, I did see a statourselves. We all need to do our part, some beef jerky at an intersection alongthat showed 5,200 cattle die each yearand If we can simply follow the general the way. You all wash it down within Sweden due to ingesting metalprinciples outlined in the Recreate Safe some soda. You had room for the can(s)from cans. This is cruel to the animalimage, we can all be safe and live to that were full of liquid on the way in,and is a major loss of revenue to theride another season and help to keep so why would you not have room forfarmer. Cows are expensive and arethe landowners happy and willing them on the way out? Your sled willdairy farmers livelihood! This is theto host the trail across their property actually perform better as there is lesstreatment they get for allowing ridersagain next year. The landowners open weight in it now! Show off to yourto cross their land for free! Why wouldtheir lands because they want to share buddies and crush the cans on yourthey allow this any longer? Bottomthe beauty with others, and in return head (with your helmet on of course)line, if you like to recreate on privatethey only wish to be respected and and put them back into your bag, aland and enjoy milk on your cereal,appreciated. Picking up trash is one quarter the size they were when youeggnog around the holidays, or aof many simple ways to show this left your home. Heck, in a short seasonhamburger for a meal, lets keep ourrespect.you might be able to hold all yourwaste with us for disposal where itI think the song written by Jerry Leiber empty drinking cans in your saddleproperly belongs!and Mike Stoller and sung by The bag and only have to empty it out oneA common theme for all forms ofCoasters sums up what I am saying time at the end of the season! recreation is PACK IT IN, PACKwell.A second option is to place all yourIT OUT! With Covid-19 as a realTake out the papers and the trashfood in a gallon zip lock when youthreat to many businesses (eating leave in the morning and put yourestablishments), riders, clubs, andOr you dont get no spendin cashtrash in that same bag through the day.associations, we are likely to see anIf you dont scrub that kitchen floorWhen you arrive home, simply removeincrease in the amount of food andYou aint gonna rock and roll no moreit from your saddlebag and properlydrink consumed outside along the dispose of it in your trash. No mess intrails this winter. The HotdoggerYakety yak (Dont talk back!)the saddlebag and better yet, no messSnowmobile Oven or The Muff PotLook this song up if you have the in the landowners woods of field, and(look this up if you feel inclined)chance and have never heard it before. no closed trail, so everyone you ridewill be popular among riders, andIt will get stuck in your head, and as with can enjoy that land again nextmore families will be choosing to eata result I am hopeful that each time weekend or maybe even next year! Ifalong the trail. It is kind of nostalgicyou ride you will be singing it in your you are a thrifty sort, most of thoseif you think about it: a sunny hillsidehead as you head down the trail and cans are worth a nickel. If you savewith friends and family, chickadees,practicing what it preaches by taking enough of them, you can purchasechipmunks, and blue jays trying toyour trash out of the woods and off the brand new full cans to take with youget their share of your lunch if youtrails.Here is the snowmobile version on your next trip. Your Momma wouldlet them. It will be more like ridingof this song, written by yours truly.be so proud! was back in the 70s and 80s. There is To put a more dire note to this, oftennothing wrong with this if everyonePick up your wrappers and your trashthe cans end up out in a farmersdoes their part to pick up afteror you gonna get whipped with a hayfield. The farmer cuts the hay andthemselves, respecting the landownersfrozen sashbales it for his livestock, expecting thatproperty by leaving no trace and riders who can operate a snowmobileessentially leaving the land as youIf you dont respect landowners along would be intelligent and respectfulfound it.We may leave a track, butthe VAST trailsenough to carry out any cans theyonce the snow melts there should be noYoure the reason our entire system brought onto the trail. Many of thetrace of what took place this winter. Infails!farmers have expensive machineryJune, the landowner should not knowYakety yak, dont talk back!with magnets that pull metal fromwhat you had to eat and drink for the hay. But many old time Vermontlunch on their land! Now you understand why I am the farmers do not have this equipmentWe are fortunate that we will all beTrails Administrator and not a song and bale the hay the way they haveable to partake in this wintertimewriter! Early Winter 2020 | 19'