Photo # CAE5
© Ross V. Walker 2015
A lone cottonwood grows in the rocks of the Alabama Hills with the Sierra Nevada mountains in the background
The big mountain on the left is Lone Pine Peak. The three craggy mountains directly over the tree are (l to r) Crooks Peak, Keeler Needle, and Mt. Whitney. Mount Whitney is the tallest in the lower 48 states at 14,505 feet elevation.