Originally Posted by
BikeArkansas
Just lean into it and go slow.
^^This^^
Prior to my retirement, I lived and worked in the Ozarks. One of my favorite rides was up and over a mountain, and I tried to do it mostly with an outbound headwind. The resulting inbound tail wind helped me back up the mountain and allowed to to try for new land speed records on the descent, coming in.
On one particular ride home on the final descent, I caught a couple of significant cross winds, which scared the stuffing out of me. After that ride, I payed more attention to the wind on that descent. If I encountered cross winds, I started applying brakes on and off at the beginning of the descent and assumed a little less aerodynamic posture on the way down. I felt like the decreased speed afforded me a little more control over my line.