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The Gatineau man told police he enjoyed the view from the Champlain Lookout, but police gave him a ticket anyway. You can’t drive a car on a ski trail, even if it has a nice view.

It was before sunrise last Tuesday that National Capital Commission patrollers on snowmobiles spotted the Toyota Echo on a cross-country trail.

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The 30-year-old man had been seen before, driving around barriers and along the Gatineau Park ski trails at night, police say. This was his third known cross-country trip of the season.

The NCC called the MRC des Collines police, who waited where the trail ends at the P5 parking lot, at the corner of Kingsmere Road and the Gatineau Parkway. When he showed up, at 6:30 a.m., they stopped him and explained that this isn’t what the call of the wild is all about.

Also, car tracks chew up the ski trails.

He was sober, they concluded, and just enjoyed the late-night view.

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