Bending in the Winter's Snows

 

Here at about 8000 feet above sea level, the winter snow is deep enough to bend the trees as they grow. You can see that all the trees are bent towards the downhill slope. The amount of bend depends on the slope because they all get the same amount of snowfall. This image was taken on the Alpine Loop in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah but you can see the same bent tree effect all over the world in the high mountains.