Infinite Road
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BishopLone Pine

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Narrated by The Drifter 93 km · about 56 min · 12 stories

Down the Owens Valley beneath the Eastern Sierra: the water war Los Angeles won, the aqueduct that runs on gravity alone, the orchards of Manzanar — planted by internees, still bearing — and the Alabama Hills, where Hollywood filmed every western that needed rocks.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Bishop, California

    The Owens Valley Water Conflict

  2. 2
    Bishop, California

    Numa Life in Owens Valley

  3. 3
    Bishop, California

    Listening at Owens Valley Observatory

  4. 4
    Big Pine, California

    The Owens Valley Elk Herd

  5. 5
    Big Pine, California

    The Gravity of the Aqueduct Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  6. 6
    Big Pine, California

    The Gravity of the Aqueduct Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  7. 7
    Independence, California

    The Gravity of the Aqueduct Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  8. 8
    Independence, California

    The Orchards of Manzanar Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  9. 9
    Independence, California

    The Orchards of Manzanar Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  10. 10
    Lone Pine, California

    The Orchards of Manzanar Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  11. 11
    Lone Pine, California

    Cinema in the Alabama Hills

  12. 12
    Lone Pine, California

    Gustave Marsh and the Whitney Shelter

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.