Routes

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.