A vandal who carved the name “Nick” into a rock wall at Yellowstone has sparked outrage among fans of the iconic park.
A photo shared in the Facebook group “Yellowstone National Park: Invasion of The Idiots” showed the scribble on a thermal crust of the Biscuit Basin boardwalk.
The scratching said, “Nick and [illegible] were here.’ Members of the Facebook group have launched an effort to identify Nick and his partner in crime.
‘Dirty, rotten bastards! Get photographic evidence to catch them in the act! They deserve to be reported and publicly shamed! This is getting ridiculous,” said one group member.
Yellowstone National Park enthusiasts are outraged after a tourist carved “Nick and (illegible) were here” into the thermal crust of the Biscuit Basin boardwalk
“Please take a photo of the people doing this and follow them to their vehicle, take a photo of their license plate and turn it in,” said another.
‘There are only so many Rangers, so they need our help with this. Let’s not let these people destroy our beautiful parks. Let’s get ’em, folks.’
The Biscuit Basin Trial is a 0.9 kilometer loop that wraps around hydrothermal features such as Sapphire Pool, Avoca Spring and Jewel Geyser, which erupt every seven to 10 minutes.
Others who viewed the photo expressed anger at the vandalism and said they wanted revenge on the people breaking park rules.
“Man, if I see someone do this, he’ll eat that rock and there’ll never be anything solid again. People are ignorant and I’m willing to just turn off people’s lights,” one person said.
“I’d like to put them out over a hill full of fire ants,” said another.
The Biscuit Basin Trial is a 0.9 km loop that wraps around hydrothermal features such as Sapphire Pool, Avoca Spring and Jewel Geyser, which erupt every 7 to 10 minutes.
“Nick you are ad**k,” a third wrote.
“What’s wrong with these idiots to keep them out of the park,” someone else added.
As Yellowstone’s tourist season ramps up, so do groups dedicated to catching idiot tourists – called “tourons” – in an effort to hold them accountable.
The webcams around Yellow Stone National Park have captured multiple instances where unwitting tourists have put themselves in danger for various reasons – ranging from wanting to get closer to nature or climbing over barriers to take a better selfie.
An Instagram account titled ‘Tourons of Yellowstone’ collects all the examples in which a ‘touron’, the combination of a ‘tourist’ and a ‘mouron’, does yet another incredibly stupid charade, repeating the rules of the game over and over again. park violates.
James Bond star Pierce Brosnan was fined $500 and made a $1,000 donation after he was caught posting photos online of himself at a thermal area in Yellowstone during a visit in November.
The actor, 70, was walking in a restricted area at Mammoth Terraces, in the northern part of Yellowstone near the Wyoming-Montana line, on Nov. 1, according to park citations.
He uploaded images of himself standing in the snow on the thermal feature to his Instagram page, court records said.
Leaving the boardwalk is punishable by up to six months in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.
Brosnan initially pleaded not guilty in January to wandering into Yellowstone National Park’s “delicate” and dangerous hot springs, despite being photographed standing in the protected area at the time of the alleged offense.
Judge Stephanie A. Hambrick then granted the 70-year-old’s request to cancel his first appearance.
Pierce Brosnan was fined $500 and made a $1,000 donation after he was caught posting photos online of himself in a Yellowstone thermal area
In 2021, a Connecticut woman was jailed for seven days, fined $2,000 and banned from Yellowstone for two years for leaving the walkway and approaching thermals.
Yellowstone’s features are dangerous and fragile and if damaged can take years to restore.
Countless people have died from falling into Yellowstone’s boiling pools.
Among them is Colin Nathaniel Scott, who is believed to have dissolved in the hot, acidic water after leaving the boardwalk at the park’s Norris Geyser Basin in 2015 to find a place to soak.