With a fairly uneventful border crossing back into the USA we found ourselves on the desolate highways of southwestern Texas. We were heading northwest towards a sport crag that we'd…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.