We can become obsessed with mountains and the gravitational challenges they represent, especially when our bicycles are loaded with the necessities for long-distance touring.
Mountains also can provide some of the most memorable and unsullied scenery on our bicycle travels.
So it's no surprise that mountains, hilltops or long downhill runs accounted for the themes of the winner and most of the top runners-up in the 1st annual Adventure Cycling Association photo contest.
The winning photo, above, of a cyclist in red bicycling through the mountains of Tenerife on the Canary Islands was taken by Dutch photographer and cyclist Marco Meijerink.
Photo spread
His photo and the six runners-up appear at the Adventure Cycling blog. They'll also appear in a photo layout at the upcoming March issue of Adventure Cycling Magazine. The blog offers a sneak peak of the photo spread.
The other photos: a mountaintop in Hungary, a hilltop in Ohio, a long downhill coast in the Andes, and a short downhill plunge in northern Spain. There also are photos of a campsite in Italy and group of boys after a circumcision ritual in Mali.
You can see all the entries at the Adventure Cycling page at flickr.com. The judges culled through some 700 entries. They had a lot of amazing images from which to choose.
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