23rd–31st April 2024. Nine days of tramping and hut bagging in the Central Westland back country. As previous readers of my blog posts about tramping might recall, Easter trips into…
Mark WatsonApril 23, 2024
| Ticking off Remote Huts | During the last 15 years or so, Easter is traditionally a time when we try to plan a West Coast tramping trip, when we're…
Mark WatsonJune 19, 2021
Visiting the Icon of Inca Civilisation There is much exposure afforded to so many of the world's most 'Instagrammable' destinations these days. Consequently it's easy to build your expectations too high, and I…
Mark WatsonMay 6, 2019
A Change of Mode Deep in the Cordillera Vilcabamba and only accessible by foot or mule, Choquequirao is perhaps one of the more mysterious of the Inca ruins accessible from…
Mark WatsonApril 28, 2019
Climbing Volcan Chachani. We arrived in Arequipa nearly three weeks ago, and it's from here I compile our latest post. Leaving has become something of a daily joke as we keep finding…
Mark WatsonOctober 28, 2018
Volcánes Acatenango and Fuego. During our three week hiatus from cycling at Lago Atitlán we climbed the popular local peak Indian Nose a couple of times. On our second visit…
Mark WatsonSeptember 6, 2017
Mayan ruins deep in the Petén Basin. When early aviators, including Charles Lindbergh, made the first flight over the immense Mirador Basin of Petén, Guatemala in the 1930s they were…
Mark WatsonMay 31, 2017
Over the Christmas/New Year break and in between finishing some design projects and prepping for my long-term Te Araroa trail excursion Hana and I decided to return to Stewart Island…
Mark WatsonJanuary 16, 2015
Easter this year was spoiled for many prospective trampers by a series of storms that ravaged the mid-north West Coast of the South Island. Epic winds blew the roofs off…
Mark WatsonAugust 21, 2014
