Trail (UK) - 1 Okt 2025
Peak season
Haulers GEAR
12 CLASSIC MAP ROUTES
10 TIPS FOR TIMING HIKES SO YOU’RE SAFELY BACK DOWN BEFORE DARK
● The thrilling ridge above Scotland’s ‘James Bond road’
● Narrow mountain escapes & what they taught us
● 8 small peaks with big views of Snowdon
● Walk the Great Langdale skyline
ASSYNT: AN APOLOGY
EDITOR’S PICKS
Bring the horizon
Trail’s rude night out
Wicked & wild
Ben Mor Coigach
Snowdon’s satellites
Hiking Room 101
Carry on camping
Peak of the Month
Trail Picks
Nature Diary
Out There
Hill Hacks
Masterclass
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Bring the horizon
Tryfan’s your backdrop on this Eryri epic,
Did James Bond stare up at these crags?
Tarf Hotel loop,
MOUNTAIN RIDGE GUIDE
The kit we love to bits
MacCulloch’s Fossil Tree,
Meet Hanwag’s do-it-all shoe
Helvellyn horseshoe,
Pen yr Helgi Du,
Talybont triple,
Soft shell jackets
Cliviger Gorge,
Loweswater loop,
The Devil’s Point,
Headtorches
Ben Donich
Ben Donich
GOWER POWER: WELSH WALKING FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 21ST ANNIVERSARY
SLOW WAYS ROUTES MAKE BRITAIN MORE WALKABLE
VIEW WITH A BREW AND A CHEW
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THINGS WE LOVE: THE FORAGER’S CARD DECK
My biggest pet peeves from 10 years of mooching in the mountains
Dolomites, Italy
Castle Crag, Lake District
Yorkshire Three Peaks, Yorkshire Dales
Dale Head, Lake District
Pen Llithrig y Wrach, Eryri (Snowdonia)
Mont Toubkal, Morocco
Roys Peak, New Zealand
Ben Lomond, South Highlands
September: Shortening days and crispy nights
FULL HOUSE
FULL HOUSE
*WHAT’S IN A NAME?
WHO WAS FIONA?
3 MORE FANTASTIC FIONAS
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THE LANGDALE SKYLINE
THE LANGDALE SKYLINE
THE ROUTE
TRAIL STAYED AT...
DOUBLE THE COUNT (PLUS ONE)
TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM
TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM
2 ELIDIR FAWR 924M
3 YR ARAN 742M
4 MOEL CYNGHORION 674M
8 GALLT Y WENALLT 619M
8 GALLT Y WENALLT 619M
CARNEDD Y CRIBAU
CARRY ON CAMPING
CARRY ON CAMPING
SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK CLIMBING
SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK CLIMBING
SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS FROM CROWLEY’S LIFE AND CAREER IN THE MOUNTAINS
STOP RUNNING [HOW TO] LATE ON WALKS
THINK FIRE SAFE!
PREVENT BLISTERS
AVOID A BLACK SPOT
CLOCK THE SUNLIGHT HOURS
NARROW ESCAPES (AND WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THEM)
NARROW ESCAPES (AND WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THEM)
LIGHT UP THE HILLS
HANWAG’S NEW ‘MULTI-TASKING’ SHOE P58 | 6 OF THE BEST SOFT SHELLS HEADTORCHES | LONG-TERM TESTS P68 | 5 DYNAMIC DUFFELS FOR YOUR GEAR |
Nights are drawing in, but will that stop you? Not with one of these HEADTORCHES
Feel the bead in your sole
5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
Feel the bead in your sole
A SPRING IN YOUR STEP
5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
TRAIL VERDICT
SERIOUS STUFF
Soft shells
Matt Jones & Ellie Clewlow
Rab Borealis Hooded Jacket £85
Mountain Equipment Arrow Hooded £100
Parámo Velez Windproof Jacket £125
Helly Hansen Blaze Softshell £130
Thrudark Veles Jacket £165
Berghaus Ridge Roamer Softshell Jacket £270
Headtorches
Matt Jones & Ellie Clewlow
Lifesystems Intensity 580 £35
Claymore Capon 120-D £38
BioLite Range 300 HeadLamp £43
Nitecore NU25 MCT UL £45
Black Diamond Spot 400-R £55
Petzl Actik CORE £72
A home from home wherever I go
Thin, light and tough as nails
Moves like a base layer, warms like a mid layer
The tent preservation society
Duffle bags Gregory £210
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
THE BEACONS 3-DAY EPICS IN THE CAIRNGORMS AND
THE TOWERING RIDGE ABOVE JAMES BOND’S CHILDHOOD HOME
6 SPECTACULAR HILL AND COAST HIKES
MOUNTAIN SAFETY
Pen yr Helgi Du
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The Devil’s Point
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Loweswater loop
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MacCulloch’s Fossil Tree
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Cliviger Gorge
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South Pennines
Helvellyn horseshoe
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Lake District
The Tarf Hotel loop
Bridge of Tilt to Tarf Hotel
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Tarf Hotel to An Sgarsoch & Carn an Fhidhleir
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Bridge of Tilt
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Talybont-on-Usk triple
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Allt Lwyd loop
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Fan y Big & Waun Rydd
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Cefn yr Ystrad
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Ben Starav: North and East Ridges
Ben Starav: North and East Ridges
Trail Notes
Oli Reed, Trail editor
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