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This photo has been used as an example of cross loading. Has the wind been blowing from left to right, or from right to left?

https://images.articulate.com/f:jpg|png,a:retain,b:fff/rise/courses/pLi0j79...

Looks like features are scoured on the right. That means that is the direction the find is coming from.

That's what I thought. Scoured on the right of the ridges, and deposited on the left of the ridges, i.e. wind is right to left.

This is the text that accompanies the image:

Lee slopes are not always at the top of a slope. Here you can see where the wind has swept across the mountain face (left to right), overloading the side of the vertical gullies. This is called cross loading.

Is it wrong, or am I missing something? It's from here:

https://rise.articulate.com/share/E8y2HjI41iXpw2R3LR8EhkzonCgW5b8O#/lessons...

First picture shows a cornice. Click right twice to see the cross loading bit.

Wonder if it is referring to right and left as you do with glaciers....I agree...wind coming from right of pic as look at it

I would say the text is wrong, looks like right to left wind direction to me!

Right to left. Snow accumulation occurs on the lee side of obstacles (ie the ridges/aretes}

Definitely right to left; maybe the photo got reversed accidentally. Don't think it means orographic or right and left, there'd be no point in that here, and it's always specified if used, to avoid misunderstandings.

From the right of the photo to the left of the photo...

The problem with left and right is that it depends which way you are facing.  If they meant skier's left they are correct, but it would have been helpful to specify.

Or perhaps the photos was flipped accidentally...

Or perhaps they are just wrong

Thanks all, I'm not going mad after all!