Hiking Routes

Once seen, never forgotten, this life-affirming mountain day offers delights quite unlike any other. Just be prepared for that long walk in...

Tucked away at the back of Bleaklow where nobody thinks to look, the cascades of Wildboar Clough combine to create one of the best scrambling outings in the Peak District.

Here’s how to stitch together Lakeland’s two most recognisable peaks into what could well be the best mountain route in England.

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 may be a relative tiddler, but a summit ridge traverse of this Highland classic is a proper mountain outing to rival almost any.

There’s no denying the tough and rough nature of this rocky route, but the reward is possibly the best view in all of Wales.

Narrow knife edges, scrambly towers, epic exposure and phenomenal views, the Forcan Ridge is a Scottish mountain classic with ‘must do’ written all over it.

Kinder Scout is the most iconic of all the Peak District’s peaks, and this 30km circuit of its vast plateau is one of Britain’s finest hillwalks.

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.

Napes Needle may be an historic icon of rock climbing, but there’s a sneaky little scramble that can get non-climbers up close and personal with this Lakeland legend.

This monster of the north-west Highlands looms large over Loch Maree, and offers one of the finest day walks in Britain.

One of Snowdonia’s most easy-going scrambles, the Daear Ddu Ridge still serves up rewards aplenty for those who seek out this rocky route up moel siabod.

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.

Walk the entire skyline of the Lake District’s intriguing Coledale valley, taking in more Wainwrights than you can shake a moth-eaten, tobacco-smelling, flat cap at.

It’s probably the Lake District’s, if not the UK’s, most popular ‘scramble’, and a rite of passage for every fell-loving hillwalker. Welcome to Striding Edge.

Y Gribin must be one of the most overlooked scrambles in Wales, but step off the main routes to try this ridge and you’ll discover it’s one of Snowdon’s best kept secrets.

Here’s why you should Ignore the busy peaks of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales for a remote and spectacular walking tour of the shapely Howgill Fells.

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.

Head to secretive southern Snowdonia to tackle a mountain route like no other the classic horseshoe of Cadair Idris, otherwise known as The Minffordd Path.

It’s no epic, but its grand setting – in a waterfall among spectacular Dales limestone scenery – is more than enough to make Malham’s Gordale Scar a classic scramble.

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.