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Style:Sepia Camera:Canon 40D, 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS EF Date:17 December 2008 Location:Mount Lemmon, Arizona Elevation:9157ft ASL At 9000 feet above sea level, the temperatures plummet, even in the desert. Hundreds of pounds of ice and snow accumulate on trees and create a depressed appearance. The weaker trees succumb to the mighty weight and lose some or all of their branches. Only the strong survive in such harsh conditions. The blistering wind coupled with cloud cover, (or fog, however you like to define it at the summit of a mountain), combine to create unique formations of ice on the trees, ground, buildings and even chain-link fences. Ice forests, or so I like to call them, form from continued gusts of wind, snow, and moisture in one direction, effectively building horizontal icicles on everything.