The joy of bicycling Washington's Palouse region
Crossing mountain passes by bicycle always gives me a lot of satisfaction, but I get the most thrill from bicycling on rolling rural roads.I enjoy using my big gear to power downhill and gain enough momentum to help me up the next rise. At the top a view of the landscape unfolds in front of me before I dive into the next tight valley.Some of the best rolling terrain I've ever ridden is in the Palouse region of southeastern Washington, above.This is a wheat and legume-growing area encompassing hundreds of square miles of silt dunes created during the last Ice Age. Farm roads wind around these humps and hallows ...Source: http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2011/8/14/4878913.html