Tag Archives: History

Native American Cupule Boulder Discovered

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Jack Elliott

Mortar No trail leads there. A careless body could fall along the way and be bloodied up, break a bone, die busted and splattered across the sharp angular stones of canyon rip-rap and jumbled boulders and bedrock slabs. Such has … Continue reading →

Posted in Santa Barbara | Tagged Adventure, Anthropology, Archaeology, Chumash, Hiking, History, Los Padres National Forest, Native Americans, Rock Art, Santa Barbara, Wilderness | 2 Comments

The Chumash Arrowhead

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Jack Elliott

April 2019 Black So what am I supposed to do with you, Professor? White Why are you supposed to do anything? Black I done told you. This aint none of my doin. I left out of here … Continue reading →

Posted in Santa Barbara | Tagged Adventure, backcountry, Backpacking, Chumash, Hiking, Hiking (2), History, Indians, Los Padres National Forest, Nature, Wilderness | 12 Comments

US Coast Survey Patterson Camp Inscription Vandalism (1873)

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Jack Elliott

Inside a cave in the Santa Ynez Mountains on the Gaviota Coast somebody carved an inscription memorializing the United States Coast Survey of 1873. The name is apparently in reference to Carlile P. Patterson, the Hydrographic Inspector for the USCS … Continue reading →

Posted in Santa Barbara | Tagged Adventure, Caves, Gaviota Coast, Hiking, Hiking (2), History, Los Padres National Forest, Outdoors, Santa Barbara, Santa Ynez Mountains, Travel | 3 Comments

Koso Shoshone Native American Rock Art, Ghost Dance and Hunting Magic

Posted on April 3, 2019 by Jack Elliott

Trona Pinnacles. Enter, if ye dare. The Trip Out Yonder Some monstrous industrial ramrod ferociously hammered at long intervals some unseen target of progress, the metallic slamming a devilish metronome, the concussive impact reverberating off a pinch of rolling mountains … Continue reading →

Posted in California | Tagged Adventure, Hiking, Hiking (2), History, Native Americans, Nature, Pictographs, Rock Art, Shoshone, Travel, Wilderness | 2 Comments

From Graffiti to Graffito, Trash To Treasure

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Jack Elliott

The old black board inside Manzana Schoolhouse, a free-for-all graffiti panel. (Manzana Creek Schoolhouse Circa 1893) Inside the old Manzana Creek schoolhouse within the San Rafael Wilderness of Santa Barbara County one hundred years worth of names and dates cover … Continue reading →