Some odd trees

[Tom Dunlap]

Tonight I chased a rabbit down the google hole looking for 'hook pitons'...and found:

Bent trees

 

[Paul_Smith]

Woah....thats very very interesting. I would love to see these in person. Thats a successful chase I would say. Great find Tom!

 

[macswan]

gotta be "man made" right. They're too uniform to be a snow storm.

 

[simplyarbor]

I've seen similar bends in ponderoas up higher on the stem, when the top either died or the tree was topped. When a lower lateral takes over the top, they often have that same bend pictured.
I would be inclined to say it was from a natural event, then again, the prevalence of so many in one place is sort of baffling.

 

[boreality]

I'd guess snow and freezing rain then spending the winter like that. How about our bent aspen whose cuttings grow straight.

 

[boreality]

Nope changing my guess. Stem was broke low when the lower branch was about two feet long. Could of been a twister and the new leaders were on the back side of a small high wind event. So to say.

 

[markprz]

I'd guess it's timber framers... or boat builders attempting to encourage curved timbers for their projects...

 

[oldoakman]

AVALANCHE!!!