The ice being now strong, they skimmed across rivers and creeks, raising the snow in clouds and "switchbacking" over hummocks in a fashion that under other conditions might have been exhilarating. ❋ George Goodchild (N/A)
I left the road, following the pressed trails of what looked like deer tracks, switchbacking around the gentle slope of the hillside. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)
After Calistoga the road tilted upward, switchbacking dizzyingly 1,800 feet up, and then down, a mountain range. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)
Most riders stayed on their bikes over the three timbers on the run-up and Powers attacked on the switchbacking, 40-foot climb. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The trail was wet and slippery, switchbacking upward through a tangle of ferns, lianas, epiphytes and cassias. ❋ Richard Bangs (2010)
The road shot arrow-straight across the flats, through plains of tufty tree yuccas green from recent rains; it squiggled over the steep hills in tight switchbacking loops decorated with shrines to the dead. ❋ Peter Heller (2010)
The tunnel was long and twisting, switchbacking on itself over and over as if Jace were crawling through the entrails of an enormous monster. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2009)
She drove carefully as the road wound down the slope of a mountain called Iron, switchbacking this way and that to eat up the steep elevation. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2009)
Twice, recently, I've flashed on that patch of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard that goes up through the pine trees in Samuel P. Taylor State Park, switchbacking through the green darkness of the pine canopy, sun misting through the trees and glinting on the chestnut ground. ❋ Becca (2006)
Fjalar indicated a trail, hardly more than a slight flattening across the bark, switchbacking down the root from above. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)
The yellow metal steps switchbacking up the side of the CN Tower were no more than three and a half feet wide-easy enough for a tall man to keep one hand on each banister and use his arms to take some of the strain on the muscles of his upper body. ❋ Huff, Tanya (1993)
They climb a switchbacking path strewn with rocks, among dark firs toward the castle in the sunlight, jagged and brown above as a chunk of bread left out for all its generations of birds. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)
There was a gravel road, barely a car's width wide, carved out of the side of the gorge and switchbacking down into the canyon. ❋ Niven, Larry (1977)
