Betcha didn't know: ATC celebrates Bad Behavior

[Green Lantern]

So y'all know the hue and cry over bad behavior in Baxter State Park, right? And how there are all kinds of official hand-wringing going on right now between the Grand Pooh-bahs of the Appalachian Trail and Baxter State Park, and stern, adult-like warnings being issued hither and thither to future hikers that they ought to behave themselves. Right? Right. Now, file this under "ATC-Journeys'-covers-that-we-wish-we-could-take-back", or, "You can't make this stuff up" and look at the picture below.




Is this the same Appalachian Trail Conservancy that self-righteously berates hikers for "bad behavior" in Baxter State Park? The same Appalachian Trail Conservancy that says, "This is not acceptable behavior", that also puts a picture of a hiker leaping into the air on the summit of Katahdin, spilling what can only be described as an open bottle of champagne all over the summit?




More importantly, Is this the very definition of (cough, cough - ahem) hypocrisy?

(see attached PDF file - could not upload as image file)