The east tree is about midway between two toe bulges (fig. 5). The same toe bulge that is pushing the west tree forward is about 3 m downslope from the east tree. Another toe bulge is about 3 m upslope from the east tree. The trunk of the east tree is straight in the lower 5 m and has a gentle bend over the next 5 m to an abrupt bend about 10 m from the base (fig. 6B). The abrupt bend is apparently a response to a dramatic uphill tilt to the tree. In the year following the abrupt tilting, the east tree put out a large branch on its uphill side (fig. 6fi). From the abrupt bend to the top of the tree, the trunk is somewhat, but not systematically, contorted. Counting sets of branches from the tops of both trees down to the
abrupt bends shows that both bends were created about the same time, a little more than 20 yr before the 1980 growing season.