After stunning images of people enjoying the winter weather, some areas have seen sledgers leave their mark behind.
Images have captured debris left behind after people swarmed to Queen's Park in Glasgow's South Side.
Residents have now been left angered at irresponsible park users who didn't take their broken sledges home with them.
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One resident describes it as an "appalling state of Queen’s Park after a few days of snow."
She said families arrived with their brand new plastic sledges or improvised sledges and had a fun day out.
It seems that practically every sledge broke pretty quickly. So what did people do ?
It seems that those people who piled them up anywhere they saw another one, were the “tidy” ones. There are sledge graveyards like this all over the park."
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The resident added that others left sledges lying on the ground where they stopped.
She added: "The north side of the park is littered with them. I even saw a fridge door that had been used for sledging - it had been abandoned at the bottom of the slope.
"This is not a problem of the council failing in their duty to pick up litter. Squads cannot keep up with the volume of rubbish being left daily.
"This is a massive and shocking failure by the people of Glasgow to think about the ability of other people to enjoy the park and the environment."
Figure skaters and ice hockey enthusiasts are among those who enjoyed in the icy pond the past few days.
Shawlands and Strathbungo Community Council said they were appalled that Queens Park has been left littered with broken sledges.
A spokesman said: "We strongly request that all park users please make use of litter bins and if a litter bin is overflowing, they should not add to it, but find a litter bin which has capacity (which may be outwith the park) or take their litter home so that the park is kept free of litter."
A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said: “People have a basic responsibility to dispose of their rubbish properly at all times by putting it in a bin.
“If a public bin is full then people should try another bin or take their rubbish home.
“However, a sledge, broken or otherwise, is unlikely to ever fit into an ordinary public bin and so should be taken home for an alternative form of disposal.
“Park bins can sometimes overflow, especially when there is high footfall in a park as there has been in Queen’s Park recently, but bins are emptied regularly."
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