Journey into a collection of essays, reflections, and field observations that seek to uncover the deeper truths hidden within the desert and ourselves.
These writings weave together natural history, survival wisdom, philosophy, and personal experience — offering a window into The Way of Things.
Jim Hamm “BOW AND ARROWS OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS” is a window into the technology of the Native Americans. While this book was intended to guide one in making a bow, it is worth reading whether you’re into archery or not. It also covers such topics as history and tradition
Glenn St. Charles This book is well worth reading if you’re interested in archery but it is is much more than that. It could be viewed as a time capsule or history book of the environmental movement. At a time when the industrial age was providing the common man with
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas This book is the unique in-depth view of the inner workings of a Hunter gather society that is essentially still intact. While the African Bushmen of the late 1950s had already been in contact with modern humans for some time, modern influence was at a minimum. They
When you walk the desert alone and in silence you can truly enjoy the beauty and the mystery of it all.
Sometimes you can be on a rock solid foundation and at the same time you are on the ragged edge.
This is another petroglyph that I believe to be a water hemlock. I believe this is a drawing or picture of its underground root or bulb that contains the most concentrated poison in the vertical root chambers, but such things we will never know for sure.
When this water hole is full it can be 7 or 8 feet deep and last for months. In this picture the sheep are drinking the last of the water and they will have to find water somewhere else to survive the summer. I wrote an article on this place
Back in the day this is what you would call scrap lumber, it wasn’t worth dragging out of the forest.
A fantastic shot on a running ram I wrote an entire article on this glyph that you’ll find on the website the title is The Moment.
Desert bighorn sheep gather at this little point of rocks before they attempt to cross the wide open desert to another mountain range. They have been doing this for untold ages. There are only a few glyphs here and none of them are bighorn sheep or atlatl.
When this water hole is full it can be 7 or 8 feet deep and last for months. In this picture the sheep are drinking the last of the water and they will have to find water somewhere else to survive the summer. I wrote an article on this place
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