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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