2 women sentenced for going off-trail in Yellowstone National Park

KZBK Billings, Montana ^ | 12:02 PM, Jun 18, 2020 | David Sherman

[LucyT]

Two women, Tara Davoli, 31 years old, and Sarah A. Piotrowski, 30, both of Philadelphia, were sentenced this week for being off-trail in a thermal area of Yellowstone National Park.

The charges are the result of an incident on June 11, 2020, where both women were seen off the boardwalk walking in a thermal area, which resulted in damage to orange bacterial mats at Opal Pool in the Midway Geyser Basin.

Numerous witnesses saw the two walking on the feature and confronted them in an effort to get them to stop.

[LucyT]

The women were sentenced to two days imprisonment, and ordered them to pay a fine of $350 and restitution of $106.92 for damages to Opal Pool.

[gas_dr]

They are lucky they didn’t go through the fragile crust and boil the flesh off their bones.

[Responsibility2nd]

No sympathy here.

There should have complained to Karen.

[Scrambler Bob]

restitution of $106.92 for damages to Opal Pool.
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Reparations for the Orange Bacteria???

[LucyT]

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PING

[JerryBlackwell]

What a shame. Should have looted stores in the name of justice and gotten away with it.

[piasa]

They were very lucky... not to become two bowls of burgoo.

[2banana]

That is a dangerous lace to wander around...

[who_would_fardels_bear]

OBM = Orange Bacteria Matters

[moovova]

“What are youse guys doing off the boardwalk?”

[Inyo-Mono]

They are lucky they didn’t go through the fragile crust and boil the flesh off their bones.

No kidding! They should read the book, Death in Yellowstone, hair raising stories of people doing just that.

[mad_as_he$$]

June 11, 2020? Already sentenced? Was the park even open on June 11?

[Buckeye McFrog]

damage to orange bacterial mats

I remember those. We had them in our bathroom in the 70's.

[Robert DeLong]

orange bacterial mats at Opal Pool in the Midway Geyser Basin

[Balding_Eagle]

My youngest brother raced away in fear from a sudden geyser in Yellowstone years ago, cutting across the area between boardwalks, my mother in hot pursuit.

Later she said she was sure they were both going through the sand and into boiling water.

As it was, it just became a funny family story.

[cgbg]

We have done it in some remote parts of the park—made sure nobody was around—and we were careful.

[Red Badger]

Orange Bacteria Lives Matter..............

[LucyT]

Apparently Yellowstone Park opened June 1:

Montana to enter second phase of reopening June 1

The Montana entrances to Yellowstone National Park are likely to open June 1. Bullock said he is working with other government officials on a reopening schedule for Glacier National Park.

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/coronavirus/montana-to-enter-second-phase-of-reopening-june-1/article_bcd040ee-c274-5771-a474-8df06be368e5.html

[mad_as_he$$]

OK Thanks!

[bigbob]

I’ll bet some Instagrams were involved