Chemical Screams

Chemical Screams

If you look across Thacker Pass from the shoulders of the Montana mountains, the land looks like a quilt the Double-H mountains in the south pulled up to their chin to keep warm during the cold winter nights. The hills that roll towards the valley floor are checkered...
The Personal Responsibility Vortex

The Personal Responsibility Vortex

By Alex Eisenberg, February 6, 2021 During my last quarter of college I learned about the concept of The Personal Responsibility Vortex. This concept (along with the critical thinking and systems thinking skills I honed at Evergreen) revolutionized how I thought about...
The Golden Eagles of Thacker Pass

The Golden Eagles of Thacker Pass

Standing on the broad northern saddle of Thacker Pass, I look across the land. The sagebrush ocean rolls away to the east, a gentle expanse of shrub steppe leading towards the snowcapped Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak wilderness, rising to 9700 feet in the distance. My eyes...
The Only Faith We Need

The Only Faith We Need

The Montana mountains standing above Thacker Pass in the north taught me that faith does not move mountains, but gravity, volcanoes, erosion, and moving tectonic plates do. A few days ago, while I was struggling with a lack of faith, two ravens circled above by head...