Trail magazine – the November 2021 issue

We've all seen photos of grizzled adventurers wild camping on top of Scotland's Munro mountains, but how hard would it be to shove a tent in your pack and do it yourself? Pete Elliott takes a pilgrimage from the south coast of England to the dreamy summit of a Highland icon to find out.

A sprawling complicated massif, Wetherlam is a fascinating fell, but one that makes exploring its best bits wonderfully convenient.

The hills and valleys of the British Isles are bursting with so much myth and legend that only a devoted mountain history buff could come close to summing the whole tangle up. Just as well we know one…

The Cuillin peaks of Skye are the stuff of legend. In his new book former Trail editor Simon Ingram goes in search of the secrets of this savage and shadowy range. It begins with a pilgrimage to the place where, over 70 years ago, someone met a mysterious and lonely death.

New woodlands are springing up in our hills but sometimes, surprisingly, planting them in the wrong place can do more harm than good. We speak to the people involved to discover why wild forest restoration is so important.