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Trails Magazine Issue 11

Trails Magazine Issue 11

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Trails Magazine's 11th Issue features a cover image from the Washington Cascades, shot by Tiffanie Yang, enclosing stories about the last gaps on the Continental Divide Trail, how federal policies are scaring away thru-hikers, the future of the pilgrimage in a secular world, and microplastics in the wilderness. Plus, the NPS office maintaining historic buildings, a new bikepacking route through the Great Plains, Miranda Webster's Trail Obscural, recipes, trip reports, maps, and more, printed on hefty 80-pound paper with fewer ads than any other magazine. Stories in this latest issue include:

  • Reporting on how federal policies are impacting thru-hikers from outside the US who want to come hike American long trails, 
  • A photo essay about the difficulty of staying disconnected, even in places as remote as Gates of the Arctic National Park, 
  • The story of the holes in the Continental Divide Trail, and those working to fill them, 
  • One writer's attempt at completing a traditional pilgrimage, and what the resurgence of such routes means in the 21st Century, 
  • An analysis of how deep microplastics permeate our wilderness, and what that means about Leave No Trace, 
  • The story of scientists who did valuable research from between the gunwales of a canoe, 
  • A look at the risk our public lands face from the current American administration,
  • An essay about passing on your love of backpacking to your kids, 
  • One writer's experiment with taking an old external frame back out on the trail, 
  • Trip reports, Outhouse Reviews, and Places stories from the Colorado Rockies, Wisconsin's Northwoods, Pennsylvania's largest wilderness, the Big Bend, and beyond, 
  • As well as book review, profiles, maps, essays, big photos, and a whole lot more. 

You won't find any of these stories online. The only way to read them is to pick up a copy of Issue 11 while supplies last. 

Want to guarantee you get a copy of Issue 12 for even more stories like that? The only way to do it is to subscribe

A note for international readers: Back issues are shipped from our headquarters in Washington, so international shipping costs apply if we send them out of the US. Readers in Canada should consider a subscription which includes free shipping—Those copies ship directly from the printer in Winnipeg and don't need to cross the border.

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