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.
In this video lecture we learn and experience how to understand one’s presence in the environment and maximize your awareness. And we do this with some of the old Masters of presence and awareness the desert bighorn sheep.
Sometimes the environment has changed greatly since the time these petroglyphs were made. So it is, from these glyphs we can get some understanding of what the environment used to be, a long time ago.
The natural attributes of the landscape will often focus the activity of the wildlife into a small area. In the ancient hunter gatherers understood this in a deep and meaningful way.
A hike in the Anza Borrego desert with Carlos and Ivo Mijac exploring the chronology of a pictograph site.
This first video should is an introduction to the content contained within the whole series. The knowledge and ideas presented, though not scientific, are based on facts learned through experience. Take a journey away from a modern means of approach to the natural world, and momentarily return to a more
Join Carlos Gallinger as he takes a go at interpretig pictographs in the Anza Borrego desert.
This humble, often overlooked creature lives almost everywhere in the desert, such as along the dry lakes at the bottom of Death Valley and in the high mountains among the piñons and junipers. They do this through their ability to eat a wide range plants. The jackrabbit is an extreme
