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.
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Route 1: Windy Gyle via Routin Well, Cheviot Hills
Enjoy two deserted valleys and a panorama-packed summit on this quiet circuit in the Cheviot Hills.
Click here to view and download the Windy Gyle via Routin Well route from OS Maps
Route 2: Bowscale & Bannerdale, Lake District
Let’s keep the more technical side of the Lake District for another day with this airy wander over three Wainwright fells.
Click here to view and download the Bowscale & Bannerdale route from OS Maps
Route 3: Eglwyseg Escarpment, north Wales
It’s north Wales but not as you know it! Get some limestone beneath your boots on this stunning circular route.
Click here to view and download the Eglwyseg Escarpment route from OS Maps
Route 4: Arenig Fawr, Snowdonia
Spend a winter’s day discovering the shapes and summits of Arenig Fawr, as it commands its own history and place within the special landscape of Snowdonia.
Click here to view and download the Arenig Fawr route from OS Maps
Route 5: Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons
Perfect U-shaped valleys and far-reaching views... It sounds like Lakeland, but this perfect valley circuit is actually in south Wales.
Click here to view and download the Black Mountains route from OS Maps
Route 6: Ben Donich, Southern Highlands
Ben Donich may seem a little retiring but it offers perhaps the finest views within the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park.
Click here to view and download the Ben Donich route from OS Maps
Routes 7, 8 & 9: Ultimate Weekend – Peaks and troughs, Cairngorms
Explore the UK’s highest landmass from bottom to top, on this epic expedition over the Cairngorm plateau.
Click here to view and download the Day 1: Lairig Ghru route from OS Maps
Click here to view and download the Day 2: High summit traverse route from OS Maps
Click here to view and download the Day 3: Return to the forest route from OS Maps
Routes 10, 11 & 12: Ultimate Weekend – Elterwater, Lake District
The wooded valleys and high fells around Elterwater always guarantee a memorable weekend in the Lake District.
Click here to view and download the Lingmoor Fell & Side Pike route from OS Maps
Click here to view and download the Swirl How & Wetherlam route from OS Maps
Click here to view and download the Black Fell & Holme Fell route from OS Maps
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