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Tame
Snowdonia’s
wild frontier in one stunning day walk
Cairngorms
Helvellyn’s
in winter
lost ridge
Why this grand natural
paradise is best served cold
Unexpected thrills
on Nethermost Pike
within reach
Rucksacks
& base layers
Our experts test the best
Extreme exposure
One man’s astonishing vision
of the Canadian Rockies
The
Cobbler
Getting friendly with a
deep-frozen Highland icon
Best view
in England!
Climb the hill that unlocks it
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How to stop aches &
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Hill kit for your dog
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Welcome
Loughrigg Fell, a perfect
Lake District miniature mountain,
in rather kinder conditions... and (inset)
the weather we got. Did it matter? Not a jot.
TEAM TRAIL’S
Welcome to
You know the look on someone’s face when they experience something new?
It’s magical. Like a child seeing their rst snow, or touching an animal. Or when
somebody climbs a mountain and gets an amazing view. This time of year – as the
kaleidoscopic contents of this issue show – can be hit-and-miss, weather-wise. You
could get the Arctic, you could get Antigua, or any shade in the middle. So if you
wanted to introduce someone to a mountain, it’s an uncertain time. It happened to
me in January, when I attempted to impart the virtues of hillwalking to a companion
in far from virtuous weather. I’d done the sensible thing: picked something small
(Loughrigg Fell in the Lakes) and unlikely to be prohibitively frozen, not covered in
cliffs or ridges, but with ‘wow’ views and a great summit. As we set off the wind and
rain were having a ght with the clouds, and the words ‘damp disaster’ loomed large
in my mind. But I don’t know why I was worried. As every UK walker knows, the
weather doesn’t
need
to be great. You don’t
need
endless views. It can be foul. And it
can still be fab. What was funny about this day was the person I was accompanying
up Loughrigg was Clare Balding, to whom I had promised a rewarding
introduction to the world of hillwalking for an episode of BBC Radio
4’s
Ramblings.
We got to the top, the clouds briey tore themselves
away from each other to reveal an astonishing view, and I saw
that
look. When I asked if she wanted to call it a day, she gave me another
look, and said “No! I want to keep walking.” Which says it all, really,
doesn’t it?
Simon Ingram, editor
(Twitter @MrSimonIngram)
MONTH
Sarah Ryan
heads for
Snowdonia's wild Rhinogs, to
see if their highlights can be
had in a single day's walk. They
can indeed... and it’s on
p28
Twitter
@sarah_outside
Ben Weeks
packs his ice
axe and crampons and gets to
grips with two scrambly icons
– one secret (see
p52),
one
not so (p36), but both brill.
Twitter
@gingerheadben
Jeremy Ashcroft
is left
breathless by the stunning
arctic expanses of the wintery
Cairngorms, before composing
himself suiciently to write
them a love letter on
p44
Matty Graham
slides over
from his pew on
Digital Photo
mag to share some ’awesome
mountain shots’ he found.
One thing led to another...
and to the interview on
p56
Oli Reed
nds himself supine
and in pain on a Leeds physio's
table – and discovers a raft of
issues that could have put his
future hillwalking in peril
p64
Twitter
@olireedoutdoors
www.livefortheoutdoors.com
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Contents
WHERE
TRAIL
WILL TAKE YOU
The Rhinogs prove
an enchanting place
for a walk: page 28.
Young beech trees twist
up around us, scattering their
leaves on the thick moss below
BASE CAMP
Climb it
6
8
10
Yewbarrow: a ‘tiddler’, yet ‘most entertaining’
SKILLS
Expert advice
68
How to conquer fear of heights; why you
should wear gaiters; all about Schiehallion;
mountain snack-of; what to do if you lose
your map; predicting weather on the hill; the
pros and cons of cheap waterproof trousers
ADVENTURES
The Rhinogs
The Cobbler
Cairngorms in winter
22
24
42
92
Nethermost Pike
Extreme exposure
56
Ten truly out-of-this-world
outdoor photos
28
36
44
52
Its very best bits, condensed into a day’s walk
Experience it
Snowholing: where you dig your own digs
A familiar mountain reveals its spikier side
Young Mountaineer
These kids have won our inaugural awards!
YOUR TRAIL
In box
The world of hillwalking: your thoughts
Why this place is best seen at this time of year
The
Mountain
I
nquisition
14
What makes survival guru Ray Mears tick?
Scrambling via a less-well-known approach
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Little-known Lakeland, scrambled: page 52.
Proceeding with caution on The Cobbler – page 36.
Ray Mears:
deinitely
not a sprout person – page 14.
TOM BAILEY
Why the Cairngorms is the place to be in winter –page 44.
GEAR GUIDE
Hot new kit
Box-fresh stuf that’s caught
Trail’s
eye
ALL NEW!
ROUTES
74
76
80
84
86
89
90
1
Yewbarrow
101
2
Nine Standards Rigg 103
3
Bannisdale Horseshoe105
4
Fair Snape Fell
107
5
Tryfan
109
6
Stob Ghabhar
111
7-9
Coniston Water
113
10-12
Applecross
117
Applecross
10 11 12
Walks of a lifetime
The Road to the Isles
Stob Ghabhar
2
1
7
8 9
6
Base layers
55-65 litre rucksacks
Phone cases
Kit me out for walkies
First test
Used & abused
The best oh-so-vital next-to-skin garments
Yewbarrow
Whopping packs for a wide range of budgets
Nine
Standards
Rigg
Bannisdale
Horseshoe
3
Coniston Water
Fair Snape Fell
4
...‘cos no-one wants a moist or mangled mobile
PLUS
Walks of a lifetime
Ridge guide
Map of the month
122
127
129
Map of the month
Snowdon
5
Ridge guide
Llech Ddu Spur
Gear you need when hillwalking with a hound
Tryfan
A Fjällräven tent to tackle the worst weather
Where Team
Trail
appraises its paraphernalia
OCHOOSE
YOUR ROUTE AND GO HILLWALKING!
APRIL 2016
TRAIL 5
TOM BAILEY

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