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…
Te Araroa Trail Photography Book FAQ Te Araroa: Walking New Zealand's 3,000 Kilometre Trail, my photography book from a January – July 2015 through-tramp of the Te Araroa Trail is coming…
Hard to believe it's nearly a month since I finished the Te Araroa Trail at Bluff! Time sure flies when you're back in the office. First week home was a…
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…
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…
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…
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.