Photo of the Day 108

Bike Ride, Napa Valley, California, 2003

Photograph by Catherine Karnow

There are more ways to sample Napa Valley than with a glass in your hand. Here, mountain bikers pedal the Oat Hill Mine Trail through a wildflower-lined field in California's storied wine region.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Other Napa," November/December 2003, National Geographic Traveler magazine)