The United States government on Thursday dropped five criminal counts against David Lesh for allegedly entering Hanging Lake illegally last summer. Instead, the U.S. Attorney’s Office will focus on trying to prosecute Lesh for allegedly operating a snowmobile in a closed terrain park at Keystone Ski Area last winter and using the national forest for his outdoor clothing company’s marketing and sales efforts without authorization. Assistant U.S. Attorney Pete Hautzinger didn’t comment on the change of strategy during a brief hearing in federal court in Grand Junction. Hautzinger said during a hearing on Jan. 11 he would investigate comments Lesh made in an article in The New Yorker last month. Hautzinger said at the time it could influence how the prosecution proceeded.