Chas Cartwright, Glacier Park’s current superintendent, retires the end of this year. (He’s staying in the area, though.) The Flathead Beacon has a nice write-up . . .
It takes a stretch of the imagination for a suburban boy growing up in the cityscape of Detroit to grasp the mountains and untamed nature of Glacier National Park. It requires setting foot inside the sylvan world of one of America’s most pristine places, witnessing the silver ridges and discovering some of the last natural backcountry in the Lower 48.
Chas Cartwright vividly remembers the first time he visited…