One of the guys I went to the academy with ended up as a LE ranger at Glacier. He spent the whole season standing at the entrance turning cars around because they had to limit the number of people coming it. Yet somehow they still have a maintenance backlog of hundreds of millions of dollars and a GS-5 starts at 40k.

Also, fuck it I'll say it, for the most part it's a commodified and inauthentic experience of nature.