Hiking Routes

The grand mountain of Bow Fell feels like the centrepiece of the Lake District, with a daring climbers’ traverse path showing off all of its finest features.

Here you’ll find all the routes featured in the most recent issue of Trail magazine. You can view the routes on the OS Maps website and, if you’re an OS Maps Premium subscriber, overlay them on 1:25,000 Explorer or 1:50,000 Landranger leisure mapping.

A scrambling traverse of its rippling ridgeline is the best way to discover why Liathach is a serious contender for Scotland’s finest mountain.

Spend a day exploring Scotland’s southernmost Munro and get hooked on all this rugged country has to offer. Sometimes the lowest hanging fruits are the juiciest.

Secluded and exceptionally situated, the Llech Ddu Spur scramble to the summit of Carnedd Dafydd is one of Snowdonia’s best-kept secrets.

Once you know it, you’ll see it from many parts of Snowdonia. The Nantlle Ridge is an edgy walk that makes you think and use your hands every so often, but never quite a scramble.

Here you’ll find all the routes featured in the most recent issue of Trail magazine. You can view the routes on the OS Maps website and, if you’re an OS Maps Premium subscriber, overlay them on 1:25,000 Explorer or 1:50,000 Landranger leisure mapping.

It’s one of the shortest scrambles in the UK, but ‘threading’ the Cobbler’s needle is airy, unusual, and the only way to the mountain’s true summit.

This grand tour of England’s two highest mountains – Scafell Pike and Sca Fell – starts and finishes on the remote shore of its deepest lake.

This Lake District ridge is a thrilling route finishing on the panoramic summit of Blencathra, and high on the ‘to-scramble’ list of many hillwalkers.

From many places in the Lake District, one mountain repeatedly catches your eye – Pike of Stickle, the crown jewel of one of England’s best mountain walks.

Here you’ll find all the routes featured in the most recent issue of Trail magazine. You can view the routes on the OS Maps website and, if you’re an OS Maps Premium subscriber, overlay them on 1:25,000 Explorer or 1:50,000 Landranger leisure mapping.

This legendary ridge is one of Britain’s most thrilling routes on its biggest peak, and you don’t even need to be a mountain goat to walk it.

Here you’ll find all the routes featured in the most recent issue of Trail magazine. You can view the routes on the OS Maps website and, if you’re an OS Maps Premium subscriber, overlay them on 1:25,000 Explorer or 1:50,000 Landranger leisure mapping.

Famous for rugged peaks, remote glens, atmospheric lochs and stunning wildlife, the mountains of Scotland offer the toughest and most rewarding hillwalking in Britain.

The Scottish Islands are a haven for hillwalkers, mixing rugged coastal scenery with jagged mountains that rise directly from the sea to some of the loneliest and most spectacular summits in Europe. The views are massive, the wildlife is magnificent and the only problem is figuring out where to start first. So, we’ve done the hard work for you by picking out our five favourites…

The Peak District contains some of the finest hillwalking routes in England, from rocky escarpments and ridges to mini mountains and rolling moorland.

There’s something magical about walking beside water and when you mix the finest lakes in Cumbria with the rugged beauty of the Lakeland fells it becomes a thrilling experience. Below, Trail magazine has picked out five of the finest lakeside trails that combine water, woodland, wildlife and, of course, mountains. All with mapped digital routes for you to download and follow.

Most hillwalkers will have heard of Striding Edge on Helvellyn and Sharp Edge on Blencathra, thrillingly narrow aretes that offer scrambling adventure on two of the National Park’s most popular peaks. But they aren’t the only great scrambles in the Lakes, so we’ve picked out a few of our favourites below to make a Trail magazine Top 5.

The mountains of north Wales offer a superb variety of hikes and scrambles, from Cadair Idris in the south to scrambles on the ridges of Tryfan and Snowdon in the north. We’ve rounded up a top ten selection of our favourite hillwalks in Snowdonia so you can get out there and see what we’re raving about.

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Six days. 14 mountain passes. Every Lakeland valley. 13 lakes. Over 200 optional mountains. 72¾ miles

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