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<div>There isn't a trail to Crater Hills, the trail you speak of is a social created by wildlife watchers up the hill for a better view. Much like Grand Prismatic they are trying to keep it at one trail. There is no off trail travel allowed in back country thermal areas, it is even printed out on backcountry permits now.</div>
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From: JEFFREY CROSS <jeff.cross@utah.edu><br>
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Sent: Wed, Jul 27, 2016 7:51 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [Geysers] Crater Hills<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">I'd be cautious about two things--first, you don't know who took down the barriers or why, or whether it was official. Second, there's been a move toward closing down unofficial
trails. From your placement of the word "trailhead" in quotes, and the NPS placement of closure signs there, it sounds like this "trail" is one of those.
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<div><font size="-1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Is the path to Crater Hills legal again? We've been interpreting the barriers across the "trailhead" to mean no but noticed in July that the barrier just in front of the trail had been taken down with people photographing
the valley at the head of that first steep incline.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="-1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Thanks!</font></font></div>
<div><font size="-1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Karen Webb</font></font><br>
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