After photo op, climbers fined for altering rock in Utah park

PUBLIC LANDS — A picture is worth a thousand words, and also $4,000 dollars to law-breaking climbers in Utah.

Their moment of glory doing illegal route modifications in a national park was expensive in the long run.

Photo used in Patagonia catalog leads to fines for rock climbers in Utah
A photo used in a 2011 Patagonia catalog of rock climbers in the Grand Wash area of Capitol Reef National Park in Utah led to a Park Service investigation, and the charging of the two rock climbers and a third person who helped modify the route used for violations under the Park System Resource Protection Act.
Salt Lake Tribune