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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THE 12 PEAKS OF CHRISTMAS • Starting planning your festive escape now by taking on the wildest (and most impossible) hill challenge we’ve ever come up with…

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

Out there • YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAILS

December: The year goes out with a bang

MINIMISED DANGER… MAXIMISED ADVENTURE • How do you find the sweet spot between adventure and self-preservation? Trail headed up Blencathra on a perfect winter’s day to work it out.

3 LESS RISKY RIDGES

THE CITY OF SEVEN SUMMITS • Urban exploration at its peak: Trail sets out to knock off an epic round in Britain’s most mountainous city.

THE LONG GOODBYE • The glaciers of the Alps are receding, retreating, even collapsing. Why is it happening? What is the impact on those who love the mountains? And can it be stopped?

THE HOLY MOUNTAIN • Can you really commune with angels on this wild Welsh coastal peak? Trail climbs CARN INGLI to find out – and ponders why humans have always seen mountains as stairways to heaven.

LIFE OF BRYNACH

AXIS MUNDI

YOUR MAJESTY • Five ridges, regal crags, and beautiful white robes. BEN LUI is the ice queen of the Southern Highlands, and you’ve been granted an audience.

[HOW TO] FUEL YOUR BODY FOR WINTER HIKES • Eight top tips for staying fully charged and ready for anything when the mountains are at their coldest.

THREE ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR WINTER

ON THE MAP VS ON THE GROUND • Green dashes, black dashes, diamonds, dots. What do they all mean and, most importantly, can you walk on them? Here’s our guide to what’s what on the OS Explorer map – and what each symbol actually looks like on the ground.*

Fine-tuned for winter • Have winter walkers at long last been given a pack specifically for their needs? We think they just might…

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

WINTER KIT FOR WALKERS

Winter boots • For stiffness, support and sure-footed traction, a pair of crampon-compatible MOUNTAINEERING BOOTS are essential for your snowy winter expeditions. Here are our top picks.

Winter waterproofs • Winter mountain adventures can be epic in every sense, testing your skills, your endurance – and your kit. These WATERPROOF JACKETS are designed to cope with the toughest conditions.

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

Winter gloves • Protect your hands from the nip and bite of Jack Frost during the coldest season in the mountains with a selection of our favourite winter gloves.

Where to walk this month… • EXPERT GUIDES TO BRITAIN'S BEST MOUNTAIN ROUTES

Carrock Fell & High Pike • Head for Lakeland’s Northern Fells to bag a couple of easy tops when winter puts more rugged peaks beyond reach.

Beinn a’ Chochuill • A straightforward winter ascent along a sinuous summit ridge in the Highlands leads to a Munro with spectacular alpine views.

Fowey to Polperro • The coast path between the beautiful harbours of Fowey and Polperro is some of the most remote and dramatic in Cornwall.

The Stanage circular • Traverse the...