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.

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EDITOR'S PICKS

Trail

BASE CAMP YOUR ADVENTURE STARTS HERE

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

WHISKY PEAKS OF THE CLACHAIG INN • “Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the Clachaig is so delightful, a roaring fire and whisky within, to the Inn, to the Inn, to the Inn…”

"The world turns golden – the treasure has been found" • 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 suffers the curse of the British weather (again), but he still strikes gold in the end…

LIVING ON THE EDGE • People often set off on life-changing journeys. But they’re rarely as obviously transformative as Christian Lewis’s six-year, 19,000-mile walk around the entire UK coast.

QUICK-FIRE QUESTIONS

Out there • YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAILS

Cold nights, cosmic lights: The wonder of winter night skies

A DASH OF SEASONING • Take a mountain you think you know, give it a bit of a season (we’d recommend winter), and serve it up in a different way. You’ll find that not only is it a whole new taste sensation, but you’ll get most of it to yourself.

WHAT IS ALPINE STYLE?

A WORD OR TWO ABOUT THE DESCENT

Bothy Life • Our deputy editor spends her first night in a mountain shelter, the first MBA bothy no less. But deep in the Galloway Forest Park things aren’t quite as they first seem….

LOVE THE BOTHY

MBA FACTS

HOW TO… NAIL A MOUNTAIN CHALLENGE • Time to get fit? Get motivated? Bag more summits? Then it’s time to focus your efforts on a mountain challenge. Mountain Leader Will Legon has some expert tips to help you do just that in 2024.

CREATE YOUR OWN CHALLENGE (AND KEEP IT LOCAL)

WHERE EAGLES DARED • For decades Haweswater and Riggindale were a LAKE DISTRICT stronghold, famously the home of England’s last golden eagle. It’s been over 8 years since the bird was last seen, but its presence still dominates the landscape.

COULD THE EAGLES RETURN?

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

KNOWLEDGE

MOUNTAINEERING MEMOIRS

GET TO KNOW YOUR COMPASS • One of your most critical pieces of equipment, a compass is essential for planning and undertaking journeys. This palm-sized piece of plastic can enable you to find out all sorts of information, from the angle of a slope to the distance of a route on the map. Here’s what all the parts do and mean.

For hills and high places • A classic, much-loved piece of outdoor apparel, Rab’s updated Vapour-Rise jacket offers something for all hill and mountain adventurers – however they travel.

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

MORE KIT THAT'S DEVILISHLY DIFFICULT TO DEFINE…

Insulated jackets • For hillwalking and mountaineering in the winter months, an INSULATED JACKET is a welcome addition to your kit, delivering a great big dose of warmth whenever the cold starts to bite.

Microspikes & crampons • Whether wandering beneath the hills admiring their white coats or heading...