White Mountain (summit)

 mountain, lab, summit

Elevation 14,250 feet.
White Mountain Research Station, Summit Laboratory cum Weather Station.
Owned and operated by the University of California.
Left photo shows the south side of the summit hut at sundown.
Right photo shows the north side at midmorning.

The original "White Mountain" was a 13,445 foot peak some 13 miles north of here. In 1917 the was a name change, and this became White Mountain Peak while that other summit became Montgomery Peak.

Yellow outline traces the 14,000 foot elevation contour.
Photo by Pete Yamagata shows the view from the summit, looking west to the Pacific Crest of the Sierra Nevada, some 40 miles away.
Telephoto shot of White Mountain Peak (without snow, it's not so white!) was from McAfee Meadow, about 4 miles to the south.