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.

IT’S (NOT) GRIM UP NORTH

EDITOR’S PICKS

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BASE CAMP YOUR ADVENTURE STARTS HERE

CAN YOU TOP THIS? • The entries are pouring in for the coveted title of this year's best mountain photographer - and as you can see from the pic above, the standard is high!

THE PRIZES

MEET OUR PARTNERS

THE JUDGES

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

BEST APP FOR NAVIGATING MOUNTAINS

Seven wild sleeps on seven special summits • 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 he travels back and forth between England and Wales on his very own 7 Summits challenge.

The Trail 100: what we’ve been climbing • It isn’t just our readers we’re challenging to climb every Trail 100 peak - our magazine team are also out there working through the star names on the list. Here are some of our recent favourites.

Trail 100 kit • Some of the best spring and summer gear from our Trail 100 partners

Out there • YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAILS

Wee beasties of the British mountains

MOUNTAINS FOR THE MIND • For the past four years Trail has worked in partnership with Blackdog Outdoors to provide free guided hillwalks for Mountains for the Mind supporters. This month we caught up with Andy Higson, the charity's director and founder, to find out more about the amazing work they do.

Book a Blackdog event • Here are some of this summer's highlights

NORTHERN EXPOSURE • The great peaks of the NORTH-WEST HIGHLANDS are so plentiful that choosing one to climb can feel almost overwhelming. And if it's a knuckle-tightening scramble you're after, you may need a little extra guidance. Luckily, we know just the guy!

NEXT STOP: THE MOUNTAINS • Wainwright couldn't drive when he wrote his seven legendary LAKE DISTRICT guides, so we figured we don't need to either. Here's why it's worth ditching the car to explore the hills.

HOW TO DO IT

WORTH A STOP • Five big hills by bus (and the pubs that accompany them)

FASHIONABLY LATE • How do you get the PEAK DISTRICT's favourite sunrise spot all to yourself? Simple - just get stuck in traffic and turn up late.

HOW TO WALK THE GREAT RIDGE

SENSE OF ADVENTURE • Blind adventurer Amar Latif catches up with Trail to discuss trekking through a jungle in 40°C heat, overcoming adversity, and the best biscuit he's ever had.

IN SLOVENIA WITH TRIGLAV • In a world full of hustle and hassle, it's comforting to know that there are places that exist at a gentler pace, where nature is revered above technology and the landscape is something to be cherished rather than exploited. What's not to love about SLOVENIA?

A MOUNTAIN UNDER PRESSURE

THE JULIANA TRAIL

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

KNOWLEDGE

YOUR EXPERTS

A-Z NAVIGATION HANDRAILING

On bright sunny days

[WHAT'S IN A NAME?]

BRISTLY RIDGE

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