| We rode through a stream, enjoyed a few final bursts of speed and skidding switchbacks and freewheeled into the shanty town of Yolosa. |
| Somehow this is all tied in to the treacherous mountain trails, where a mile as the crow flies can take twenty miles of switchbacks. |
| At one point, we zipped through 22 hairpin bends of tightly curled switchbacks and descended more than 10,000 ft. |
| A series of terrifying sandy switchbacks zigzag thousands of feet below us, for miles. |
| Then we freewheeled down countless switchbacks to Sangdu, nestled in the corner of a wide earthy valley dotted with ponies, pigs and yaks. |
| I would sit on the roofs of listing, overloaded trucks grinding up and down hundreds of switchbacks across the gorge-scarred Yunnan province. |
