Alabama Hills are part of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. They were named by prospectors in California that were sympathetic to the Confederates. In the recreation area you will find rock formations that have weathered into arches like the one above. The most popular arch is Mobius Arch (photographed above) and when we arrived there at 6:30am it was already being photographed by a few other photographers. I climbed up onto a big boulder about 10ft in height to get this shot of Lone Pine Peak looking through Mobius Arch.