The Alabama Hills are a range of hills and rock formations near the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in the Owens Valley, west of Lone Pine in Inyo County, California.
Rocks of the Alabama Hills with the Sierra Nevada in the background, winter dawn
Typical rocks in Alabama Hills
Mobius Arch
Gunga Din Temple movie set (36°35′09″N 118°06′41″W / 36.5857398°N 118.1112798°W / 36.5857398; -118.1112798)
Owens Valley is an arid valley of the Owens River in eastern California in the United States. It is located to the east of the Sierra Nevada, west of the White Mountains and Inyo Mountains, and is split between the Great Basin Desert and the Mojave Desert. The mountain peaks on the West side reach above 14,000 feet (4,300 m) in elevation, while the floor of the Owens Valley is about 4,000 feet (1,200 m), making the valley the deepest in the United States. The Sierra Nevada casts the valley in a rain shadow, which makes Owens Valley "the Land of Little Rain". The bed of Owens Lake, now a predominantly dry endorheic alkali flat, sits on the southern end of the valley.
Owens River from Bishop Tuff tableland.
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Owens Valley, photographed from Sawmill Pass by Ansel Adams, circa 1936.
Alkaline dust blowing off the dry bed of Owens Lake