This sort of stuff is fun, but just like with La Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon, you have to limit use, or ban use entirely, just to preserve what Nature gave us:
Climber Dean Potter scaled Delicate Arch, the soaring desert symbol of southern Utah. Now, the National Park Service wants to make sure he doesn't do it again.
Arches National Park on Tuesday announced a tightening of its rules on climbing after Potter announced with photographs and video that he made an unassisted climb of the arch just after daybreak Sunday.
Arches Park Superintendent Laura Joss said she reported Potter's climb to the Interior Department's chief lawyers, and park rangers were investigating whether Potter did any damage to the arch.
Joss said she was rewriting the rules to ban climbing of any named arches or natural bridges in the park.
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