Dude is lucky he didn't get severely injured. Archive: https://archive.today/1hVKk From the post: >>There are few things more unsightly than a baseball cap sitting on one of the gorgeous and delicate bacterial mats that surround thermal features in Yellowstone National Park. One of those things is watching as people go off designated boardwalks to go after those hats. The best thing a park visitor can do is leave them be. One visitor seemed to be taking matters into his own hands Monday, according to a series of photos posted tothe Facebook group Yellowstone National Park: Invasion of the Idiots. He stepped out onto a bacterial mat at Grand Prismatic Spring in flip-flops to collect hats that had become blemishes on the pristine landscape.