Looks like some hikers found the taffy motherlode.
Don’t know if it’s aeolian but if you go to ANWR and look south toward the mountains you will see layers in the rock that have been bent and raised to vertical as geological forces moved stuff around over a period of time. Folding. Even solid rock isn’t so solid as to be permanent.
Beautiful photo and geology. The striping at the bottom was eroded at the top and has a thin layer of flat-lying rock. Then it looks like more of a similar striping rock above it - similar angles but not exact matches. The thin flat layer could have been a short period of time where the area was overlain by water and had calm water depostion).
Then the lighter sandstone at the very top seems to show a third type of depositional environment. (”Every picture tells a story don’t it”).