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

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BASE CAMP • YOUR ADVENTURE STARTS HERE

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

HIKING ROOM 101: My biggest pet peeves from 10 years of mooching in the mountains • After a decade of soggy socks, bashed up pork pies, and making polite conversation with the midgiebitten masses, here are the things Trail writer Fliss would banish to Hiking Room 101 faster than you can say “lovely day for it” in the driving rain.

Out there • YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAILS

September: Shortening days and crispy nights

FULL HOUSE • If you REALLY want to know Scotland's mountains, you need to add The Fionas to your peak-bagging hit-list — starting with BEN MOR COIGACH.

*WHAT'S IN A NAME?

WHO WAS FIONA?

3 MORE FANTASTIC FIONAS

THE LANGDALE SKYLINE • High above GREAT LANGDALE is a hillwalking challenge just waiting to become a classic Lakeland round, with five Wainwrights in one epic walk.

TRAIL STAYED AT…

DOUBLE THE COUNT (PLUS ONE)

TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM • Clustered around YR WYDDFA (SNOWDON) are eight mountains that get a fraction of the attention lavished upon The Boss. Trail decided it was high time they got some recognition - and some love.

CARRY ON CAMPING • Some things are just funny, and when it comes to innuendo Wales has one mountain to rule them all: LORD HEREFORD'S KNOB. It seems rude not to spend a wild night on it.

SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK CLIMBING • As an occultist, novelist, painter, poet and magician, Aleister Crowley was notorious as a master of the dark arts. He's less well known for his short but pioneering climbing career.

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

PREVENT BLISTERS

THINK FIRE SAFE!

NARROW ESCAPES (AND WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THEM) • Sometimes, whether down to judgement or pure bad luck, things go wrong. We gathered a team of experts and asked them to tell us about a time the proverbial hit the fan - and how they escaped.

Feel the bead in your sole • Hanwag says the new Kaduro Light GTX offers the perfect combination of stability, cushioning and durability, but does this lightweight shoe measure up to this weighty promise?

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

A SPRING IN YOUR STEP

Soft shells • Upgrade your mountain layering system with a SOFT SHELL JACKET built for all-round weather protection, comfort and mobility. Here are our top picks for 3-season hiking, scrambling and backpacking.

Headtorches • When darkness falls on the hills, a HEADTORCH is a lifeline, not a luxury. Here’s how to choose the right torch for you, with six light yet bright picks that are perfect for mountain adventures.

Used & abused • TRAIL’S GEAR, TESTED FOR YOU

Duffle bags • For gear hauling almost anywhere but on the trail, a duffle bag is hard to beat. Swallowing huge volumes of kit and tough enough to survive everything from car boot battering to baggage handler hostility, here are five of our favourites.

Pen yr Helgi Du • Experience some of Ogwen's finest views far away from the clamour of the...