Welcome to the latest edition of our bikepacking packing list for the Andes, South America, updated 2023/2024. We spent just over four years between 2016 and 2023 (we took a…
This article discusses the characteristics to look for in a bikepacking bike that will be suitable for extended touring on a wide variety of terrain, and looks at what we…
This is an overview of the Otso Voytek carbon plus/fat bike, covering our impression of these versatile bikes for long distance touring, as well as explaining how we set the…
Welcome to our latest gear list, updated to April 2020. After three years and nine months on the road since we left Deadhorse, Alaska in June 2016 we have continually…
sometimes the plan goes sideways It's been about six weeks now since our visit down to the Madre de Dios jungle region with Manuel and friends. While we'd been down…
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.