The morning sun paints the Sierra Nevada, a snowcapped pink backdrop to the Alabama Hills. Action Photography by Kevin Wing. Static photography by Jenny Smith.

On the eastern edge of California?s Sierra Nevada, tucked away beneath Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the continental U.S., is a tiny little town called Lone Pine. Lone Pine is best known as the jumping-off point for mountaineers seeking to summit Whitney, a convenient place to freshen up and grab a hot meal for hungry Pacific Coast Trail through-hikers and a playground of outstanding bouldering for rock climbers. If you?re a film buff, you might also appreciate the area?s history as a backdrop for Hollywood movies since the 1920s, especially the Westerns of the 1950s and ?60s like ?How The West Was Won,? ?The Lone Ranger? and ?Hell Bent For Leather.? It?s not the town of Lone Pine itself that features on the big screen, however, but rather a uniquely beautiful and photogenic geological formation that lies on the western edge of town, in the shadow of the snowcapped Sierra peaks: the Alabama Hills.
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Named for, of all things, a Confederate battleship, the CSS Alabama, the Alabama Hills aren?t really hills but a series of rock outcroppings and formations that jut from the scrubby desert floor. With a little imagination, you might pick shapes like an eagle?s head or a human face out of the hoodoos. And of co...