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.

SEA EAGLES SOARING AGAIN

EDITOR'S PICKS

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BASECAMP • YOUR ADVENTURE STARTS HERE

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

5 OF THE BEST MOUNTAIN READS • Publishing expert and avid hillwalker SARAH MCKENNA picks five brilliant books to pack in your rucksack this summer.

Out there • YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAILS

August: Late summer slows all life in the hills

IF I COULD EAT A MOUNTAIN… • …it would be LIATHACH. Boisterous, delicately flavoured and fabulously moreish, this is the all-you-can-eat banquet you should sell a relative to attend. Here’s why.

HOW HARD IS LIATHACH, GENUINELY? (NO METAPHORS)

3 MORE MICHELIN-STAR SCOTTISH MOUNTAIN DAYS

THE ECHOING SILENCE • In the hills above Blaenau Ffestiniog lie the remains of RHOSYDD QUARRY. Once a hub of industry, now abandoned and left to decay, it’s a place that echoes with whispers of the past.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF RHOSYDD QUARRY

EVERY WHICH WAY & ROUND • Both imposing and invisible, KIRK FELL is a Lake District conundrum that can only be solved by walking every path on it.

THE SEA EAGLE'S RETURN • The white-tailed eagle, the UK’s largest bird of prey, was brought back from extinction – and it all started with an ambitious project on a mountainous Scottish island, half a century ago…

HOW A SPECIES WAS WIPED OUT

A GRAND TOUR OF Little Switzerland • The Victorians confused these Shropshire hills with the Alps. How? Why? Trail dons its lederhosen, downs a glühwein and reaches for the Stretton Skyline to find out.

THE TRAVELLING HILLS

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

KNOW YOUR SCRAMBLING GRADE

GET TO KNOW ROCKS OF THE HILLS • Everything in the hills – past, present and future – comes back to the rock. Get to know this and you can read into a history of ancient seabeds and giant fuming volcanoes, or look forward to predict the habitat that will grow there and the animals that will roam it. On a rainy day, you can guess whether it will be slick as ice or grippy as sandpaper. Here’s our guide to the rock that makes the mountains.

Cup of joe on the go • If you like to enjoy a caffeine hit in the hills without compromising on the quality of your cuppa, could the new AeroPress Go Plus be everything you’re looking for?

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

PEAK PERKS: 3 MORE WAYS TO ELEVATE YOUR BREW

GPS watches • The best hiking GPS WATCHES can not only help you plan and log truly epic mountain days, they also put a wealth of data on your wrist. Here are our top picks for hiking and hillwalking.

Backpacking rucksacks • A high-quality 50L+ BACKPACK will be stable, supportive, durable and feature-rich – exactly what you need to haul your wild camping gear around. Here are our top picks…

Used & abused • TRAIL'S GEAR TESTED FOR YOU

Backpacking stoves • A cup of tea on the hill. A hot supper watching the sunset from a summit. Breakfast-in-a-bag after an idyllic camp. A backpacking stove makes it all possible – here are five of our favourites.

An Teallach traverse • A thrilling north-west...