Five years ago they were forced to give up their rice fields on the valley floor.
We follow irrigation channels out of the valley floor, up towards the mountain.
Cakebread has 112 acres of prime Napa Valley floor vineyard along Route 29, and 400 other acres in prime Napa locations.
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At 9, 730 feet, a vertical mile above the valley floor, you gaze out over 60 square miles of alkali --the Alvord Desert.
Today, mile after mile of newly planted vineyards carpet the valley floor.
The herd and riders leave a dusty imprint across the valley floor.
In desperation, they are also depleting their own groundwater, causing the entire valley floor to sink and possibly making the aqueducts geologically unsafe.
In the summer, temperatures on the valley floor can reach 120 degrees and a flat tire on an open stretch of road can get you in trouble fast.
As a result, the family uses a small tractor or a conveyor belt from the valley floor to get everything from groceries to building materials up to the castle.
On the valley floor stands the frozen lake of St Moritz -- home to an unlikely event of similar vintage -- "White Turf" -- horse racing on snow and ice.
Like so many times before, Rob was up front -- leading a patrol of two dozen Afghans and Americans on a narrow trail along the valley floor, the steep mountains towering over them.
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It reveals itself to the Warren Miller crew not only as a mountain vista viewed through groves of palms and pomegranates from the valley floor in Marrakech, but also as great cirques and vast skiable terrain in the High Atlas itself.
Today these two firms are one, which gets its wool from Australia and its power from the national grid, and its boss chafes at the restrictions a narrow valley places on floor space in his factory.
Green investors such as Silicon Valley's Vinod Khosla regularly call for a price floor on gas to support the industry.
Overall, the resort is a clever update of the grand mountain lodge tradition, with comfortable interiors of slate and cedar that offer floor-to-ceiling views of thousands of Jeffrey and ponderosa pines scattered across the valley.
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