Basque Shepherds' Dirty Tree Carvings in the Sierra

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Basque Shepherds' Dirty Tree Carvings in the Sierra

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Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #348
**This one is NOT for the grandkids!**
Every summer, Basque shepherds lead their flocks up to pastures in the mountains of the Great Basin....and they get lonely being in the mountains all alone with no female company, so they're known to carve some really shocking tree art into the bark of the surrounding aspen trees! Ever since seeing a photo of this "art" in a book, I've been DYING to find some examples of it in the field...and while camping at a hot spring in the eastern Sierra in my vintage travel trailer on my way home from Burning Man, I spotted an aspen grove way up on the ridge that looked promising, so I went to investigate!
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@davidhorn4247 4 жыл бұрын

This was just unbelievable when you first were talking about seeing it in a book, I thought yeah well maybe along time ago, and then you found one, awesome score, congrats. Thanks once again for the great places you allow us armchair campers to go.

@bgood2eachother 5 жыл бұрын

It's in the wasp family but we call them Meat Bees and there hives are usually under ground. They not only sting but they bite. They eat meat. They'll come around if you cook meat. Love you're videos!

@Anaris10 5 жыл бұрын

My Native Miwok grandmother called them Meat Bees too. To this day I've never heard anyone else use that term and I've gotten some looks when I've said it as well. We are Yosemite Valley Miwok.

@bobcat3954 5 жыл бұрын

I've always known them as yellowjackets

@JimForeman 5 жыл бұрын

Love your canned ham trailer, I was living in one almost identical that that one when I got married (in 1955) It was parked behind my motorcycle shop and we had to go to the bathroom in the shop. My wife said it proved that it was true love for her to move into something like that.

@kennethbailey2616 4 жыл бұрын

The old Montana cowboy was asked by an easterner if there was a taxidermist nearby as he had shot a real nice mule deer. The cowboy asked what a taxidermist was. The easterner said it was someone who mounts animals. The cowboy replied that around here we call them sheep herders.

@XC797 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Southern Az. Years ago I met a man of Basque origin who said his ancestors got permission from the Spanish government some 300 years ago to travel to the southwest in the Tubac and Tucson area with Spanish conquistadors. I just subscribed to your channel. History of the southwest is fascinating especially the native peoples and their long history of the desert regions.

@problu9586 5 жыл бұрын

Nice setting to tidy up. Your caravan looked clean and neat, well done. Interesting off the grid historical trivia. Thanks for another unique and fun video.

@jacobdanneskjold8472 5 жыл бұрын

Way cool Hussy!! This is one of your best yet. Basque tree art in the high sierras, super find. Takes a smart, educated Hussy to find this and know what it is. Sharp lady.

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 4 жыл бұрын

@Wonderhussy Adventure >>> You could say that carving on the tree was: _WOOD ON WOOD._ 😝😝😝😝

@OriginalBoringSpaceCadet 5 жыл бұрын

I can't think of a Wonderhussy video I didn't like. I love your adventures and your personality. This video will be hard to beat. It made me laugh out loud more than any other WHussey video in recent times. Thanks for the entertainment.

@jayhairpin4891 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been watching and enjoying your videos for a while but I gotta tell you…your humor and singing is really growing on me!!

@leggiemeggie5837 5 жыл бұрын

Didn't bother with the feet or hands! Just the good stuff!! 😆😂👏👏 I have lived in Northern California my entire life and never knew about these! 😆 you learn something new everyday 🤣❤️

@tanilivengood3367 5 жыл бұрын

I love how excited you get . What a discovery. Never heard of this before. Thanks for enlightening us

@jtcbrt 5 жыл бұрын

Those Basquards!

@creegirl9 5 жыл бұрын

That was too funny! I would def watch you on Travel Channel if they picked you up.

@dogbounty6399 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Travel girl...maybe ....your ass is intact?

@jonathansteiner3251 5 жыл бұрын

Always enjoy starting my day with a little Sarah Jane!🧡🍂🍁

@rmkenney 4 жыл бұрын

It really does add an element of joy to your day, doesn't it.

@johnfraser6013 2 жыл бұрын

That “‘Gina Grove” reference was hilarious !! 😂 Another excellent WH adventure.

@NelloCambelli 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the effort to reveal Basque Vargas artistry on the aspen canvas.

@kxrv6629 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like Buckeye Hot Springs. I have been here a couple times in almost 50 years. Watch out for leeches. No nasty aspens though...

@railroader1018 5 жыл бұрын

That's is so awesome that you got so happy about the curving and that you found them.

@75CMG 4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting - not just the dirty bits! Good to learn about: Basque migration, aspen trees and arbor/dendroglyphs!

@kylerdad123 5 жыл бұрын

It was an interesting video! Thank you for a great adventure! Looks like you are having a great time getting home to Vegas! I hope you have a great adventure in soon! Best wishes for another great trip soon🧧🤙🌅

@timfreestone4145 5 жыл бұрын

I enjoy your adventures and the places you go. But this one is just crazy... you made me laugh this morning.

@patmurphy389 5 жыл бұрын

you reminded me of the time I was sitting in a park by the river near the blue turn in germany & a sheepherder came through w/his sheep & border collie, they stayed for about twenty minutes & moved on, I was so surprised. Speaking of basque, my best friend married a basque jai lai player! Thank you for the video wonderhussy! (you should have named your channel Wanderhussy because you wander so much.....lol)

@margaretburton422 3 жыл бұрын

Hi! It was most probably a kind of yellow jacket wasp. They go out foraging food like bugs and catterpillas to chew up and go back and feed to their larvae (young). Then the larvae eat it and digest it and regurgitate a protein rich liquid that they feed back to the adult wasp. The adult cannot actually eat solid food due to the really narrow bit between the sepholophlorax and abdomen. Happy adventures Sarah Jane!

@brogenchandler4869 4 жыл бұрын

It's great to see a video filmed in the wilderness and not the desert, more wilderness videos please!

@dezertraider 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sarah,Fantastic! You are a comic also.Very interesting and your Humor made this another great WH Video..Safe Travels..

@Peter_S_ 5 жыл бұрын

9:30- that's a yellow jacket wasp and they're absolutely carnivorous.

@mikepelz7004 5 жыл бұрын

We called them Meat Bees, put a piece of bologna on a tree branch away from your camp and they wouldn't bother you!

@Urbicide 5 жыл бұрын

I absolutely hate those little S.O.B's. They usually live in underground burrows, but they can nest about anywhere. Do not confuse these with honeybees. Honeybees can only sting you once per bee, yellow jackets keep on stinging until the cows come home. Usually takes about 3 days with me before the pain finally goes away.

@maihem1 5 жыл бұрын

they are the Assholes of the insect world.

@DreamBlissYT 5 жыл бұрын

I think wasps and bees are technically two different species. Bees don't eat meat and are efficient pollinators. Wasps are carnivorous and are inefficient pollinators. You want to encourage bee growth. Try drilling 1/4" (think that's the right size) holes in a block of wood and hang it on a tree or the side of your house. Will attract Soliitary Bees.

@BadBrad23 5 жыл бұрын

@@maihem1 Those Yellow Jackets are the worst. I opened the door on my moms pump house and was right next to their nest inside the door and several flew at me but one nailed me in the shoulder. It felt like being stabbed in the shoulder with an ice pick. (I have never been actually stabbed but I bet that is what it feels like). The red wasps are medium danger but can attack too, and the black wasps kinda keep to themselves unless you agitate them. So watch out for those bastard yellow ones, They have a vandetta or something and come at you like a Kamakaze. heheh Also if there is a nest of them and you want to irradicate the nest and you don't have wasp spray, while they are on the nest blast them with WD40 if that is all you have they will drop like flies. I don't take that risk anymore and just wack them instead of them getting me.

@Audioobscure 5 жыл бұрын

i was a forest service ranger in utah wilderness and we had Peruvian goat herders and lots of cows

@dogbounty6399 5 жыл бұрын

Good for you on being ass violated ?

@steve94044 4 жыл бұрын

Thank the Basque's for Baskin Robbins :)

@Jmat40 5 жыл бұрын

It was hilarious how excited you got about the porno trees Sarah. I was laughing and was just as excited as you were. Great job!

@dave.willard 5 жыл бұрын

Doctor: How did you break your ankle? Wonderhussy: I was hiking a mountain looking for Basque tree porn. Doctor: No really, how did it happen?

@Qusin111 5 жыл бұрын

Doctor: h is there a short cut? just take the stairs, take a number and pay the $5 next time.

@bobbybaldeagle702 5 жыл бұрын

Now that's funny, I doesn't care who you are... LOL!!!!!

@barbarasummers280 2 жыл бұрын

I love how you do your videos! Lol!

@gary3696 5 жыл бұрын

Sarah, I attended a Department of Defense Language School in Cal. in the late '70's. I was fortunate to have a Basque instructor, he taught us so many spanish cuss words! LOL Congrats on a very interesting video. BTW, add Albanian to your list of non rooted languages. Also..will never be able to drive through China Grove again without howling.

@lynngatlin4469 5 жыл бұрын

Why is he a pervert. There's nothing more beautiful than a woman spread eagle. That doesn't make him a preverted

@uptownsquirrel1846 4 жыл бұрын

Probably carved by a straight, healthy adult male lonely for his wife. Wasn’t a carving of a sheep or something worse.

@mikeeddy8107 3 жыл бұрын

Now days if you ain’t banging a guy your a pervert

@user-ff8vo1se8v Жыл бұрын

I ♥️ Wonderhussy. I just found this 7 3 23!!!Happy 4th of July. I love Aspens😍

@clarasmith1873 3 жыл бұрын

You stuck with it and succeeded!!

@ronwatson4287 4 жыл бұрын

I have real good tree carvings from my neck of the woods here in Colorado. One is my pic on my phone screen

@BERRIRICH 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another AWESOME video, glad you were safe @ Burning-man

@geraldrukasin9176 4 жыл бұрын

I think 🤔 the idea of having a “ reunion “, of sorts, would be FANTASTIC !! I have Become a “ Wonderhussy groupie “ aLong time ago . You have a great 👍 personality!!! Thank

@dannyr.edwards4721 4 ай бұрын

Heck yeah!!!! Follow the gold....🐢

@risa7591 2 жыл бұрын

I'm Mexican American thought I was only Mexican, but did my dna recently, I'm Basque, Irish, Jewish, Italian, Spain Senegalese and Portuguese!!!

@nellieshiney1617 2 жыл бұрын

Funny and entertaining lady. 👏

@johnlearns2574 5 жыл бұрын

ohhhhhhhhh! so cool that you found something so wirde !!! keep it going girl you rock because I learn so many things watching your show

@markcantemail8018 5 жыл бұрын

Sarah you know where all the Art is .

@rmkenney 4 жыл бұрын

She -is- the art!

@shaun8702 5 жыл бұрын

Flip Flops in Australia are called Thongs or double pluggers. Double pluggers have the thong part of the shoe attached with two plugs for extra strength. I know, in America a thong is something far more interesting. We call em Gstrings or Gbangers in Australia.

@Arizonaheat956 3 жыл бұрын

When I was growing up we always wore thongs... that's exactly what flip-flops are.. never heard of a thong until much later

@BayAreaHiker 5 жыл бұрын

Love Buckeye Hot Spring ;-)

@altacat9702 5 жыл бұрын

The bees are getting moisture/water out of the dead snake ...I Krazy glue my flops .....hahaha!!! Great video !!!

@karencastle6002 3 жыл бұрын

I have just ordered the Teva saddles you talked about. I enjoy your post very much. Keep up the hard work. I am building a bus and hope to meet you in the future.

@shesoutthere387 5 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable that u found one! Great job.

@dekcgi7891 5 жыл бұрын

.....Basques draw it.....cowboys do it.....!!

@debbiemclaughlin4945 5 жыл бұрын

Probably had a grazing permit around there somewhere. Well married to my cowboy for almost thirty years. Been on many cattle drives myself. Sadly it is a way of life that has undergone many changes, and not for the better. Knew many Basque people in my time in Nevada. They bought sheep and wool from my Aunt.

@RoxnDox 5 жыл бұрын

A nice, neat, little trailer for your adventures... Cool stop you made here, thanks for sharing!

@adamjohnson787 5 жыл бұрын

never would have expected this! funny shit!!!

@Katseye102 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! Top 10 fascinating things found in Nevada.....or California forests! Wow! Great find considering you really didn’t expect to find anything! Very cool!

@defel1 4 жыл бұрын

Hysterical.

@gordbaker896 4 жыл бұрын

Nice Sat Evening Post Cover!!!

@bobspamail 5 жыл бұрын

WH, you’re hilarious! 😆

@williambrown5763 3 жыл бұрын

That’s amazing 🤩 I glade your are excited 😛 you are a happy person I love ❤️ your excitement

@websterbarstone 5 жыл бұрын

You're incredibly educational. I've learned about sister wives, Basque shepherds' pornographic tree carvings, and an anatomically correct statue of Sacagawea in the last few months alone.

@mortonmonte 5 жыл бұрын

Love watching your videos and learning about your adventures

@LuckyBaldwin777 5 жыл бұрын

Some camping spots we used to get swarmed by yellow jackets. We would take a raw piece of bacon and stick it on a small tree branch about 200 feet from our camp. In a couple of hours, no more yellow jackets. As long as the piece of bacon lasts (about 2 - 3 days), the only time you'd see a yellow jacket was when it was making a bee line through camp to the bacon. They'd be so happy with the bacon you could go right up to them and watch them work on it. Very interesting.

@cyclingchantal 5 жыл бұрын

[Insert Barry White alike voice] "Hey baby, wanna have some hot and steamy tree carvings together?" 😂

@blair79bear38 4 жыл бұрын

the Aspen kind of looks a bit like our Birch trees. the bark of a birch can be peeled off a dead tree like a layer of paper. we had mostly birch trees on the farm. Ya, those wasps are nasty insects , been stung by those things mostly while operating farm machinery. mostly while using the self propelled swathers to cut hay down in the coulee. Cut into a wasp nest while cutting hay, you can't get the old cockshutt ( yes it was ancient even then ) swather stopped fast enough to get off the thing to run off . I remember a few years we'd do cattle drives from home to public grazing land and back. Yes, I am an old farm boy.

@johng5710 5 жыл бұрын

Trying to figure out how these carvings solve the problem of loneliness lol

@chuckstith838 4 жыл бұрын

Ask the sheep. There never will be another eue. Baahhh

@blaker1950 5 жыл бұрын

oooomy no sheep is safe tonight!!!///lol

@mezmarionybarra 5 жыл бұрын

"Next week on ,Tree Porn Hunters", Hilarious!!!!!

@williambrown5763 3 жыл бұрын

Boy it’s beautiful 🤩 view of the mountains with a beautiful woman

@iainsanders4775 3 жыл бұрын

Those Basques really set her throat-whistle goin'..

@CEOsario 3 жыл бұрын

You probably ran across some of my dad's work...My family ran sheep from Fallen to Bishop...But what you are seeing is not Sheepherder markings...Too new...That was not Basque language...Sorry...Euskara is not Latin based and has nothing to do with Spanish...But you still did a great job...Thanks again for sharing...

@Romin.777 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Hussy Always a pleasure and a treat watching your videos. :)) Thanks and greetings from The Kingdom of the Netherlands.

@johnkirby4290 5 жыл бұрын

You always have the best information on the places that you go to. So cool that you do that. 🏴‍☠️

@mr.waynes7555 5 жыл бұрын

the baby snake was a Bull Snake and not poisonous, but they do bite.....and the "Bee" was a Yellow Jacket!

@foodpornchef6484 5 жыл бұрын

Yes I love it more stuff like that.

@terrygraham1877 5 жыл бұрын

Dang, I never ran into a girl in a bath robe when I worked with cattle. Lucky dogs lol

@SuperDave-vj9en 5 жыл бұрын

Basque shepherds haven't been here in many years. Nowadays they are Peruvians.

@ChristinaColoradoan 4 жыл бұрын

LOL, you're too funny 🌞 There was an article in the Review Journal many years ago about the Basque Sheep herders and the Aspen carvings. Since typically sheep herders are alone, the article said they used the Aspen carvings to communicate with each other. 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞

@chuckstith838 4 жыл бұрын

Just what were they saying? I want your wife?

@dondickson9941 4 жыл бұрын

Othing to do with this video, regarding lost key you can replace the battery in the fob of the dead one quite easy. Don

@johneason6540 5 жыл бұрын

You are so funny. If you didn't the the Basque story you would have never gone into the trees and surprise, you verified the story. Truly amazing. Still cute legs.

@wesallen4228 5 жыл бұрын

150 degrees on Vegas. Lol. You know how to relax.

@z10ts 5 жыл бұрын

Your so funny! I love your videos!

@alboss1665 4 жыл бұрын

Hold on there Wonder H! That explicit carving you found is likely much more recent, carved maybe in the past 10 years or so. If I had to guess, sheep herds have not been in that area for many years - maybe the 70's. The real cravings were on aspens that have since fallen, died of old age ( aspens typically live about 80 years).

@tomfrye9037 5 жыл бұрын

You, my Dear Sarah, are priceless(8-)

@JJ-em4qq 4 жыл бұрын

Love your trailer..cozy an cute..great video !!

@danielmarshall4587 4 жыл бұрын

.... not for the grandkids, it's educational. Thank you for your effort.

@travelingtimothy 5 жыл бұрын

Best video yet!

@jeffhelm7581 5 жыл бұрын

Lots of French Basque people in Chino California, come down and I'll take you to a Basque restaurant here in town.

@MickAstoria 3 жыл бұрын

I think it's pronounced Teeva? best sandles I've ever had :))

@kennethbailey2616 4 жыл бұрын

Here in Montana everywhere two miles from town is open range. You don’t have to fence your cattle in others have to fence your cattle out. Of course most of us do fence our cattle in, but in some areas we run our cattle together and separate them at shipping time.

@tenaedmonson1213 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!!

@rdemarco1956 5 жыл бұрын

Buckeye! Been there years ago.

@markcorboy8528 5 жыл бұрын

Luv your trailer man I mean Wonder hussy. It’s awesome.

@shellyouellette1724 2 жыл бұрын

awesome...!!!

@PapaRocks 3 жыл бұрын

True WH, Basque language is one of the very, very few non- Indo-European languages in Europe. They got Mideastern farmer genes like the rest of us, but were passed by when Bronze-age and Celtic people with Indo-European genes and languages came through.