Only in Pac-12 land can a football staffer get in trouble for taking his team on a hike.

Colorado director of football operations Bryan McGinnis was issued a summons for taking more than 100 players on a hike of Mount Sanitas, violating a Boulder, Colorado public health order, according to Mitchell Byars of Boulder paper The Daily Camera. McGinnis was also ticketed for failure to obtain a large group permit. According to the report, a permit is necessary for a group of more than 24 on open space land.

“The city continues to prioritize education of public health orders rather than issuing citations,” Boulder officials wrote in a statement, per Byars. “However, law enforcement officers will issue citations for especially egregious behaviors like what occurred during this recent hike.”

Byars reports that hikers alerted rangers of the incident, prompting an investigation. Rangers found a total of 108 people were in the group and “that many participants were not wearing masks or observing social distancing when passing community members on the trail,” per Byars.

The report notes that face coverings are required on city trails and trailheads and other public spaces in Boulder County when people cannot maintain 6 feet of distance and groups of more than 10 are discouraged on trails.

CU Boulder Athletic Director Rick George issued a statement Friday on the matter:

“Our athletic department has been diligent in ensuring COVID-19 health and safety protocols are in place and followed by our staff and student-athletes,” George said in the statement. “All student-athletes are tested for COVID-19 frequently to ensure they are healthy while training. As noted in the county’s self-quarantine directive for students, intercollegiate athletic training is an allowable activity. Our football team took a team hike on Thursday for training purposes. All players who took part had recently tested negative for COVID-19.

“All of this said, we acknowledge the lapse in judgment and apologize for our football team partaking in a group activity like this on public open space amid the current COVID-19 climate. We share in the community’s concern and anxiety about the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, and we do not tolerate actions that are contrary to public health orders. We will address this with our football program, and continue to educate our coaches, staff and student-athletes about the importance of complying with public health orders, including wearing masks and physical distancing at all times while in public.”