The black bit in the background are actually 1000 year old caves.. used by the first inhabitants in that region. we explored some. Crazy. Whole excavated rooms and sleeping platforms in some. This was shot on a 12 day self guided ride through the Upper Mustang region of Nepal, up to the Tibet border and back. Beautiful. Gravel flats were about 2% of the whole ride, the rest was singletrack. This shot was just the exit of a tiny remote village we stayed in, first thing int he morning going towards the trail proper.
All that's missing is a "rage face" close up of the rider who wishes he was descending the mountains behind him rather than pedaling across the endless gravel flats...