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.

MAKE 2021 COUNT

EDITOR’S PICKS

TRAIL

Choose your 2021 challenge • 2021 is a year for all of us to make up for lost time, so kick-start your mountain adventures right now by signing up for one Trail’s hillwalking challenges.

THE TRAIL 100: YOU SAY...

TRAIL Picks • Our favourite ways to go green & tread more lightly in 2021

“Walking with others is great for networking and boosting confidence” • Rhiane Fatinikun is the founder of Black Girls Hike, a group providing a safe space for black women to explore the countryside, and an advocate for getting outdoors to improve physical and mental health.

CONNECT WITH A COMMUNITY

Seeking out the historic Scots pine

Out there • YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAILS

Marmot AWARDS 2020 • 2020 has been the strangest of years, but that sure didn’t stop you climbing the height of Everest on your hillwalks in our Everest Anywhere challenge. This year the Marmot Awards recognised the achievements of five extraordinary challengers, in one extraordinary year!

MEET THE RUNNERS-UP • They may not have made the Marmot Awards final selection, but these four are more than deserving of a special Everest Anywhere mention…

365 DAYS OF ADVENTURE • Clear your calendar, because this month-by-month guide to 2021 – inspired by the peaks on our Trail 100 bucket list – will help you plan your greatest ever mountain year.

WALK A CLASSIC WiNTER ROUND

POP A MOUNTAIN CHERRY

EXPLORE BRITAIN’S ARCTIC

Beware the Grey Man!

BAG AN iCONIC TRIO

EXPLORE A WILD iSLAND

Shear terror…

DODGE THE SUMMER CROWDS

TEST YOUR NERVE

CLIMB WITH YOUR KiDS

RAiD BLENCATHRA’S RiDGES

Blencathra trivia

WALK iN WILDERNESS

MAKE A MOUNTAiN PiLGRiMAGE

SUMMIT BY STARLiGHT

HIGHLAND ICE HOTEL • To celebrate Trail’s 30th year, we’re dusting off our archives each month to resurface a favourite mountain adventure from the past three decades. Most people probably don’t consider digging an icy hole near the top of Britain’s second highest peak to be a fun way to spend a winter afternoon, and even less would then consider crawling inside it to spend the night alongside a group of strangers. But that’s exactly what we did back in 2007, before crawling back out the next morning with a cracking story to tell.

THE FIGHT TO SAVE OUTDOOR EDUCATION • Outdoor centres across the UK have been closed since March. For some, this could become permanent, at a time when the need for outdoor education is more urgent than ever. When so people many need help, we find out, what are they missing out on?

RESIDENTIAL CENTRES: A SHORT HISTORY

THE COVID AFFECT: IN NUMBERS

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

TORRIDONIAN SANDSTONE

HOW TO USE YOUR ICE AXE • An ice axe is possibly the most important piece of kit you’ll carry in the winter mountains, but what can it do and how do you use it effectively?

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

GEAR Insider • Mid layers are one of the most undervalued pieces of outdoor apparel, but Berghaus’ new Pravitale piece deserves some attention…

OLD TOGS, NEW TRICKS...