The limestone walls of Mexico's El Potrero Chico offer climbing in just about every style: juggy slabs, steep tufa-infested walls and vertical crimp-fests, but it's the long multipitch routes that…
Mark WatsonApril 20, 2010
Once a booming silver mining town, now a rustic and run down 'ghost town', Real de Catorce is an interesting spot to check out. Perched in the Sierra Madre Oriental…
Mark WatsonMarch 30, 2010
Almost smack bang in the geographic centre of Mexico sits the city of Guanajuato, nestled among canyons of the central highlands. Founded by the Spanish in 1559 due to extensive…
Mark WatsonMarch 26, 2010
Prior to seeing Mexico City for myself stereotypes I held surrounding this megalopolis (perhaps like many people) were formed by scenes from the films like Los Olvidados, Baraka and Amores…
Mark WatsonMarch 19, 2010
One of the goals for our Mexico trip was to climb 'one of those volcanoes near Mexico City', so the day before we left Oaxaca we hopped on the Internet…
Mark WatsonMarch 12, 2010
12 days of work (see previous post) was a shock to the system after 8 months of road tripping and full time recreation, so it was nice to know we…
Mark WatsonMarch 10, 2010
The 1200 km drive we made from Merida to Oaxaca took us across a cross section of Mexico's geography: from the pancake-flat Yucatan peninsula into the swamplands of the Gulf…
Mark WatsonMarch 9, 2010
After 8 months of road tripping our bank balance was startling to look depressing so the opportunity to design and produce Cactus Equipment's 2010 catalogue was a chance to work…
Mark WatsonMarch 1, 2010
We joke about our Mexico trip (as opposed to Canada and the USA) being our 'holiday on the holiday', so we figured a trip out to the Caribbean island of…
Mark WatsonFebruary 10, 2010
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