Trail

If you love to sling on a backpack, head for the hills and do some wild camping, Trail Magazine is for you. Each issue is packed with: - Routes with full OS mapping - Reviews of the latest outdoor kit - The UK’s best outdoor writing - Exclusive picture and video content As the UK’s biggest and best-selling hillwalking magazine, we specialize in the most beautiful, most spectacular and most challenging regions of Britain and Europe – and inform you about all the tools you need to explore them. If you want adventure you’ll love Trail, and Trail will love you.

TIME TO BUNDLE UP

EDITOR'S PICKS

Trail

BASECAMP YOUR ADVENTURE STARTS HERE

TRAIL Picks • Places we’ve been, things we've seen, and mountain-related stuff we like

"I've found my perfect mountain, but can't remember its name" • RUSS MOORHOUSE is on a mission to camp out on every Trail 100 peak – a challenge that spans four countries, 100 of the UK’s finest hills and mountains, and a punishing 88,339m of ascent. This month Russ gets put in his place by an 83-year-old… and falls in love.

POPULAR FOR A REASON • The problem with our Trail 100 list is that you’re spoiled for choice. We’ve intentionally crammed it with what we believe to be the very best mountains in the UK, which means choosing your next target is never easy. So, to help you make up your minds, here’s a list of the top 5 peaks from the Trail 100 list in terms of popularity.

Essential Trail 100 kit • Some of the best autumn and winter hillwalking gear from our Trail 100 partners.

Out there • YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAILS

Watch your step - there may by mini forests beneath your boots

THE HEALING POWER OF THE HILLS • After a week of crisis in which he became homeless and lost his job, Damon Alexander Cole turned to the hills to recover. Now his group hikes help hundreds of other people in similar situations.

GETTING SUPPORT

WIN! • We’ve teamed up with two of our Mountains for the Mind supporters this month to offer you the chance to win some fab prizes to help you get outside and feel the benefits of the hills.

ROCK OF AGES • New Zealander Chris Williams gets his first taste of the Lake District mountains on the hillwalkers' playground of BOW FELL… and discovers he likes its famous rock features a lot more than an English breakfast!

THE WAY OF THE WATER • Mountains hold many secrets. We journey back in time to one deadly night in the CARNEDDAU range of north Wales - the night of the Dolgarrog dam disaster.

"IF MESSNER SAYS HE REACHED THE SUMMIT, HE REACHED THE SUMMIT." • Did Reinhold Messner really not touch the true 8091m summit of Annapurna I on his now highly controversial 1985 ascent? We speak to Britain's most successful high-altitude mountaineer, Alan Hinkes, in an attempt to get to the bottom of whether one the world's greatest mountaineers should really have been stripped of his world records over a technicality, or if it's all just ‘nitpicking'.

THE 8000ERS

WHO IS REINHOLD MESSNER?

PRESERVING PARADISE • Join us on a journey of discovery to a secret sanctuary in CENTRAL WALES, and walk through a landscape that can make your heart soar and sink in equal measure.

HILL HACKS • SKILLS, TIPS & TRICKS TO GET YOU HIKING LIKE A PRO

KNOWLEDGE

WINTER KIT LIST

HOW TO SPOT THE NORTHERN LIGHTS • How often have you heard about a magnificent display of the Northern Lights the morning after they took place, when it’s already too late to see them? No more. Here’s our guide to seeing this most spectacular of celestial shows for yourself.

WHY DO WATERPROOFS FAIL? • Despite claims of impenetrable waterproofing technology, it's still not uncommon to end a day in the hills feeling...