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.

ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE

EDITOR'S PICKS

Trail UK

BASECAMP YOUR ADVENTURE STARTS HERE

"How could anyone not be calm in a place as beautiful as this?" • 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's adventures cover two countries and two national parks, finishing with the orange blaze of a south Wales sunrise.

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

BRITAIN'S BEST ROAD TRIPS

Osprey: Master fisher of upland lochs & lakes

Out there • YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAILS

MOUNTAINS FOR THE MIND • Mountains for the Mind is Trail's campaign to promote the benefits of being outside for better mental health. We believe in the power of mountains to change lives - and here's just a small selection of the amazing things going on in our community this month.

JOIN A FREE GROUP WALK

THE WILD LIFE • Life often means hill fitness isn't out top priority, but don't let that hold you back. Sometimes all you need is an epic adventure on Skye's TROTTERNISH RIDGE.

TROTTERNISH GEOLOGY

JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE MOUNTAIN • On the south-eastern fringes of the Lake District, one mountain harbours a door to a mysterious underworld. Rachel Broomhead travels up, over, and inside WETHERLAM to search out its secrets.

DANCING THE DEVIL'S LAIR • Folklore, legend, devilish dealings and the very essence of the mountains can be found in the places you least expect. As we discovered when we entered the weird and wonderful world of the STIPERSTONES.

THIN SOCK OR THICK SOCK DAY? • Bridgedale believe it's the little things that make the biggest difference to our lives, like matching the right thickness of sock to the right kind of walk...

INSIDER ADVICE

IN SEARCH OF BRITAIN'S LOST RAIN FORESTS • What happened to the temperate rainforest habitat that is now so scarce in our landscape? And what do we need to do to get it back?

HOW TO RECOGNISE A RAINFOREST

WHERE TO FIND ATLANTIC OAKWOOD

IGNORANCE IS BLISS • An epic day out following the line of the GLYDERAU mountains from Bethesda to Capel Curig gave us a better appreciation of this magnificent chain of summits. In hindsight, though, there might have been an omission...

WHERE'S THE CAR?

LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND • How much adventure could you pack into a long weekend? We loaded a couple of rucksacks, jumped on a flight to AUSTRIA, then hired some ebikes, harnesses and helmets to find out.

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

KNOWLEDGE

YOUR EXPERTS

A-Z of navigation

HOW TO CLIMB... THE YORKSHIRE THREE PEAKS

[WHAT'S IN A NAME?] Cat Bells: Den of the Wild Cat

BRITISH VOLCANOES • The Last time a volcano blew up in what we now think of as Britain was just over 50 million years ago. But you can still find the remains.

NAVIGATE BY STARLIGHT • We homo sapiens have long forgotten our ancestor's navigational skills, instead relying on gadgets...