Over the Sierra Madre. All good things must come to an end, sometime. After six weeks of cycling the length of the Baja Peninsula – through one of the most…
Mark WatsonMarch 11, 2017
Part III: Mulegé – San José del Cabo The final chapter of our six-week Baja Divide ride. Warm, stable weather and ever-interesting riding and landscapes made our final days on…
Mark WatsonFebruary 24, 2017
Part II: Bahia de los Angeles – Mulegé After the first long leg of the Baja down to Bahia de los Angeles we had found our Baja-stride. We realised our…
Mark WatsonFebruary 17, 2017
Part I: San Diego – Bahia de los Angeles We heard about the Baja Divide route not long before starting our long ride from Alaska and it appealed as a…
Mark WatsonFebruary 11, 2017
With our ride south along the Great Divide route now finished, it was time to head west towards San Diego. From there we planned to join the Baja Divide mountain…
Mark WatsonFebruary 6, 2017
The ride from Grants to Hachita was the closing chapter of our amazing tour along the Great Divide mountain bike route. A ride that had transected dense forests, windswept sagebrush…
Mark WatsonFebruary 3, 2017
Within a few hours of leaving the shady alpine valley of Platoro we had crossed into New Mexico – the last state traversed in our journey along the Continental Divide of…
Mark WatsonDecember 16, 2016
Colorado's theme of long – but generally moderately graded – climbs continued as we passed through the centre of the state towards its border with New Mexico. Our route along…
Mark WatsonDecember 15, 2016
We rode out of Wyoming in a snow storm and into Colorado with brighter days forecast. Comforting, considering that the Colorado section of the Great Divide holds all of this…
Mark WatsonDecember 13, 2016
