A few shots from a pre-Easter tramping trip into Griffin Creek Hutvwith my partner Hana and friends Katie and Bridget. Griffin Creek drains the Tara Tama Range, on the western…
A trip that's long been on my hit list is the Dragon's Teeth High Traverse in Kahurangi National Park, a high traverse of the Douglas Range from the Aorere Valley…
It's been a long time since I last posted on this blog. My priority for the last few months has been shooting for the Our Mountains book project I'm working…
Here's some photos from an amazing Westland trip I did back in April with Hana and our regular West Coast mission tramping partners Anna Pilbrow and Tom Riley. I'd wanted…
Back in January this year, not long after returning from our cycle touring journey, I headed into the Tararua Ranges (just north of Wellington city) for a 6 day solo…
I was up in Wellington for a couple of weeks around the Christmas/New Year period and somehow managed to spend 9 days of that tramping in the Tararua Ranges. I…
Here's a few shots from a very wintry three days in North Wales. The famed Llanberis Pass, gateway to Snowdonia and home to some of the most famous routes in…
Flagstaff (see previous post) was a cool place and by the time we pointed our camper in the direction of the Grand Canyon (1.5 hours north), we'd done three really…
We bailed out of Yosemite in the face of the 'storm of the century' (according to Tommy Caldwell's Dad), and drove through Tuolumne Meadows and over Tioga Pass shortly before…
So yes, we're getting a bit behind in this blogging business right now... but bear with me and we'll try to bring you some updates from the front... At the…
Thanks for visiting the blog of Mark Watson & Highlux Photography. Here, you can find the full account of our Alaska to Patagonia (2016–2020, 2022–2023) bikepacking journey, as well as our New Zealand adventures.