Heart-stopping switchbacks plummeted downwards between dark cliffs into a gorge cut by the Khunjerab River.
For experienced mountain bikers there are demanding single sections, with short but tough climbs, hillside switchbacks and rocky sections.
Even for an experienced rider like my wife the switchbacks pose a challenge.
The road down from Griffith Park Observatory was filled with curves and switchbacks and the car handled like a dream.
Shortly after imparting this significant fact, he drives us on a white-knuckle ride up narrow switchbacks to the top of 1, 000ft-high Cedar Mesa.
Occasionally, deep piles of trash were piled high in mountain switchbacks.
His descriptions of dropping like a stone over dirt, gravel and bare rocks, round blind turns and switchbacks, are a joy to read.
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The first leg of the race challenged the cars with a long climb of winding switchbacks through the Mercantour national park in southern France.
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The momentum effect has also suffered some sharp switchbacks (including an 80% decline in 1975) that may have wiped out those traders who tried to follow it.
There are straights and curves and switchbacks and even, at one ridiculous point, a loop where the road curves back, around and under itself like a bow.
Weiszbrod drives us slowly up the switchbacks of 9, 000-foot Kimball Mountain under a starry sky and a waning moon that is just past full, a bright thumb with a dirty fingernail.
It takes him several days to make his biennial trip, wrangling his cattle up precarious switchbacks, along the sides of ravines, through rapid mountain rivers, and, eventually, to town.
Ridge Vineyards feels extremely remote, on a wooded limestone ridge high above the Pacific, reached via a series of switchbacks that climb 2, 000 feet in less than 5 miles.
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They suggested we delve deeper into the heart of the region and tackle the switchbacks of Drum Canyon Road to visit the Old West town of Los Alamos, founded in 1876.
On this back side of the island, the West Maui Mountains exert themselves and push the road around like a piece of string, tight switchbacks yield to long swooping arcs that bring me deep into valleys and then shove me back out toward the coast.
During the three-hour climb up rocky switchbacks to the pass, we stomp through several steep spots blanketed in knee-deep snow and ice. (You really feel those 30 pounds shifting around on your back as you try to maintain your balance.) We're forced to detour around one switchback and shimmy up a slick, steep incline of green brush, holding on to plants for leverage--and praying for solid foot positions.
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