But momentum can build rapidly on downhill mountain curves, I found, and if you don't brake judiciously, the 4,600-pound truck felt as if it would run away from you.

At the top the mountain curves into a dome-like prominence.

So is the thrill of seeing the head or tail of your train as it snakes around a sharp mountain curve.

Now as he pressed the bike along a mountain curve, the visibility was bad, worse than it had been before.

"Oh, we ran around the bars and then Dean stole a car and we drove back down the mountain curves ninety miles an hour."

The roads are decent, although much of the highway is two-lane, and there are plenty of mountain curves around Tepic, the state capital.

Just as it was beginning to get light Tico stopped the bug on a mountain curve, and asked Raoul if he was up for a little hike.

THE little green car accelerated around a mountain curve and flashed through a village here in Aceh Province, scattering chickens, children, dust and pebbles.

After they had been climbing for what seemed like a full day, they rounded one more mountain curve and, suddenly, the plain was spread out below them once more.

Five hours from Potosi, we rounded a mountain curve and there it was, shimmering below us in the afternoon sunlight like a great frozen lake.