| At one point, we zipped through 22 hairpin bends of tightly curled switchbacks and descended more than 10,000 ft. |
| I would sit on the roofs of listing, overloaded trucks grinding up and down hundreds of switchbacks across the gorge-scarred Yunnan province. |
| On the first time up the switchbacks, Greenwood attacked with only two other riders able to follow. |
| Somehow this is all tied in to the treacherous mountain trails, where a mile as the crow flies can take twenty miles of switchbacks. |
| He stops, lets out a throaty chortle, and starts trucking straight uphill, cutting the switchbacks. |
| A series of terrifying sandy switchbacks zigzag thousands of feet below us, for miles. |
