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.

THE WONDER OF WALES

EDITOR’S PICKS

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PIKE OF STICKLE

FROM WEST FACE TO WEST END

Do it this month

JOE SIMPSON TALKS TO TRAIL

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

TRAIL GEAR LAB • SMARTWOOL INTRAKNIT MERINO 200 CREW/BOTTOM £110 EACH

MOVE FAST AND TRAVEL LIGHT

FOOTWEAR GETS DIALLED UP A NOTCH

LIGHT ‘N’ DRY

HILL FOOD ON THE GO

LAST CHANCE TO ENTER! • There's still time to take your winning shot in Trail's Mountain Photo of the Year comp.

BRING YOUR LANDSCAPES TO LIFE • These expert editing tips from Affinity Photo will take your mountain photos to the next level. Sign up today for a 10-day free trial at affinity.serif.com/photo

Walking wounded, but still walking

Marvellous mosses and lovely lichens

“No important decision should ever be made in a place with a ceiling!” • Ellis Brigham ambassador and adventurer Laura Kennington (above) talks about how time spent in the mountains allowed her to get some life perspective.

“Looking east over Striding Edge, I knew I had a new addiction”

Out there • YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAILS

Walk to the top of the world • Are you taking on Trail’s Everest Anywhere challenge to climb the height of Everest in 2019? Here are some of this month’s star challengers, plus their total ascents so far this year.

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN • The Watkin Path could well be the most adventurous walking route up Snowdon, while the South Ridge serves up the best descent, but it’s the bit in the middle where the magic happens.

SNOWDON’S PATHS

TRAIL STAYED…

WATER WORLD • Engage your imagination and experience the Welsh mountains from a different perspective, with one droplet’s epic ride down Pistyll Rhaeadr.

THE BEST OF THE BRECON BEACONS IN 6 WALKS • They’re the highest peaks in southern Britain, and some of the most beautiful mountains you’ll find anywhere in the world. Here’s how to see the best of the Brecon Beacons.

IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND • Turn your smartphone into a powerful navigation device using the award-winning komoot app.

EXCLUSIVE OFFER

THE PATH OF THE DEAD • Why a path carved for corpses is perfect walking terrain for the living...

CUMBRIA’S CORPSE ROADS

FIXING THE FAIRY HILL • Schiehallion is one of Scotland’s best-known peaks, and one of the world’s most important mountains. Contour lines were famously invented on its slopes, and today it serves as a beacon of hope for successful upland conservation.

WALK SCHIEHALLION

FIT FOR A KING • The Galloway Hills of south-west Scotland are perfect if you’re escaping 2000 armed men and a bloodhound, and pretty good even if you aren’t.

MOUNTAIN MADNESS? • In a year when 11 people have already died on Everest, and with the Himalayan trekking season about to peak again in November, Trail investigates whether overcrowding and commercial expeditions have made the world’s highest mountain more dangerous than ever.

EVEREST IN NUMBERS

8 TIPS FOR A LIGHTER PACK

SAVE YOUR SHINS

HOW TO STOP SWEATY SOCKS

SIR CHRIS...