Im sorry for them😢

Yeah I drive all over and shut down up in the Jarbridge mountains once and collected a bunch. You gotta be super lucky or take them off the tree because the wildlife usually get to them first. Diesel fuel or kerosene gets the gunk off fast BTW

Because they are a$$holes. I once hit a guy carving over pictographs in Arizona. He went to complain to a ranger about me hitting him. He had to tell why I hit him. He got arrested.

I recently visited a sacred Native American rock art site in the California desert with pictographs that tell the story of the ancient people. Unfortunately, modern visitors have graffitied the rocks, covering some of the irreplaceable art. Why do people do this?

Thanks for the video and for helping to educate and protect these historic spaces.

Is borax a rare earth mineral?

Only in America will you find people so simple minded & stupid !

Lots of us called those pounding holes "paha", not mortero.

Thank you for being such a respectful adventurer of ancient art. Lead by example! Really enjoyed the experience.

That has to be the worst vandalism I have ever seen . I mean spray painting over just to destroy a petroglyph, I have never seen anything like that.....thanks for the video and be safe...

In 1,000 years, what story will be told? Will this modern graffiti be looked upon with some unforeseen cultural significance? Or will our kin scoff at the absurdity of humanity's need to memorialize themselves at the expense of the ancient cultures?

At 4:25 the Motero site had ritualistic couplets on either side of the boulder. I’ve noticed they point to a topographic site or a planet or star.

Wonderful adventure. Thanks for taking us along!

no there is obsidian in part of the salton sea area very close to anza borrego

Years ago I was hiking, around five miles South of Cholla Pass, which is on El Camino Diablo near the US-Mexico border in Southwest Arizona. Well up the bajada, nowhere near the valley floor, between two ravines I found two lines of rocks, around 6 feet long and three feet apart. The rocks were just country rock, they were not river stones. Each rock was 4-5 inches across and each was spaced 3 inches or so from the next. The ground was slightly sloped and the surface was completely undisturbed, apart from the two lines of rocks. There was no mound or depression, like you find at a grave site. Most interesting of all, each stone was half-buried. I lifted one of the stones up a little and it was very clear to me it had not been buried like that on purpose, it got that way after sitting in that spot for a very long time. That country gets so little rain I can not comprehend how long it must have taken those rocks to sink into the soil like that, other than to say it must have taken thousands of years. I have thought about those two lines of rocks many times over the years and I still can not guess why they were there. Any ideas you may have as their meaning or purpose will be appreciated.

Yup looked like a piece of Salton sea obsidian, loads of Salton Sea Wonderstone was also used in the area

Btw I wonder if that obsidian came, not from faraway Owen’s Valley, but from Obsidian Butte, at the southern tip of the Salton Sea perhaps a full two or three day walk from there. Even to this day, the butte is covered with obsidian. The Salton Sink has alternately been dry and water filled through the ages, but when there was water, native people feasted on its oysters. Piles of oyster shells have been found in that extremely hot, dry desert. (Obsidian Butte is said to have erupted about 10 AD give or take a century.)

Great video and historical information. I have camped many times in the Anza Borrego desert and enjoyed its beauty. Amazing what can be found if we take time to look.

Great video. I find sites like this in North Texas panhandle.

Just discovered your channel and I'm impressed. Lots of great videos, amazing places and history makes your channel one to watch. I've got my own channel and I hike and drive in alot of the same places. Your camera work, B-rolls and production is top notch, Bravo ! here's a link to my channel, maybe you'll find some new places to go...P.S. Nice Jeep I've got one of those too. Great Job www.youtube.com/@Anthonysaudiojournal

love how you uncover the history. It is a sad story how the Spanish and white people interupted their way of life

Terrific journey! Thank you for that. In my post lottery life, I’m buying a winter place in Borrego Springs and exploring endlessly. Love the morteros. Anza-Borrego has a lot to offer. Are you going to try the see trestle bridge down there one day? Might be illegal to do so now - not sure. I imagine that ancient landscape greener, lots more surface water, filled with people, livestock (?), crops, and lots of trading. I appreciate your use of Google Earth, if that is what you’re using. I’m bummed I didn’t see a delicious meal prepared on the grill. Looking forward to your next desert safari.

That’s such a nice area . . And good reason to own a Jeep! That is so pretty when you first come upon the meadow and the Kern! We used to set our folding chairs out in the river as we enjoyed a frosty barley pop! The airstrip is there and they used to run a guide service out of Ridgecrest for fishermen and hunters. It is always so windy out there and at the end of the airstrip there is evidence of a plane crash, plastic bits, window plastic and metal bits .. Was that Tunnel meadows you hiked to? Or Templeton meadows?

You make a very nice video! After seeing the sketch pad with the bird drawing on it I know why the name of your channel is ‘Artistic Off Road’ ! Very nice! Thank you!

Thank you for watching this week's episode. Stay tuned for more desert adventures!

Nice video. Informative talk. Thank you. I recently explored Borrego’s Mine Wash, which has a village site, so your video brings back nice memories. Good luck to you.

Excellent storytelling. Really enjoyed this and the previous episode on geoglyphs you did a few weeks back. Everything you show is really intriguing and worthy of contemplation / additional research. Always look forward to seeing what new spots you visit!

I remember 100 mile train on tv. Late 1950’s early 1960’s Borax commercials I think 🤔

Wow, Ludlow in the UK is a small town i used to go on day trips as a very small boy. The Midland Red Mystery tour (Midland red was a bus company) its nice its named elsewhere.

Great job on another fascinating video. I find the pine cone especially intriguing!

Borax?

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A whole desert and they still feel the need to come ‘park’ right next to you. I’ll Never understand these types of people. Why camp in the middle of nowhere if you’re stuck on the feeling of needing to be next to someone and not be lonely. No courtesy and respect at all.

Thanks for checking out the video to this incredible spot. I recently watched a video about similar rock formations (cairns) made by the Kumeyaay peoples of what is now San Diego county. Those rock formations are said to align with various solstice patterns. I wonder if that is what is happening here.

Pine cones are dropped by birds all the time. Most likely the case here. Rock piles are quite common in times of planting crops to clear the larger stones out of a field (gotta put them somewhere) - as well as garden borders. If there was a time this was a green field of plenty - then perhaps. Thanks for exploring!

I work here! I’m the girl with the ponytail and glasses who served you your date shake. Thanks for visiting and thanks for the video!

If you weren't in the park I would think your drone might be a great tool to use for searching for rock alignments. Interesting stuff at any rate!

Check out the channel for the full episode of our visit to China Ranch Date farm where we hike along the Amargosa River and visit the abandoned T & T railway.

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The first of the lost Death Valley 49ers to pass through this way was a group called the Jayhawkers who split from Manly and Rogers' Bennet-Arcane party after a disagreement about which route to take west out of one of the most treacherous landscapes in the world.

Great video! Felt like I was pulled into your world. I appreciate your efforts to make sense of and tell the story about these otherwise inscrutable petroglyphs and the people who made them. Really interesting stuff.

maybe it was not Indians camping there

Great outing. We love treks in the desert near springs.

Outstanding episode man, your content never gets old! Just gorgeous 👏👏

Cool hiking weather ! That looks like near Red Rock area. Thanks for sharing.

Hmm, at the 7:45 mark there was a 1946 date as well. This was in Death Valley?

We have so many petroglyphs around here I might have to get out this year and document some of them. Interesting that you found that 1849 date out there.

It seems everywhere we look in the California deserts, we find signs of prehistoric native life-this spot being no exception and containing unusual petroglyphs unlike any we have seen before. Thanks for coming along on this adventure.

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There is a new documentary coming out called “ROUND UP” if you would really like to know what the BLM is doing to the wild horses and burros they I humanely catch. Horrific. Humans brought the horses and burros to Death Valley many years ago. They are part of the history of America.