Trails Magazine Issue 7

As always, this issue features delicious backpacking recipes, trip reports from amazing adventures, beautifully illustrated trail maps, tons of big photos, and the best backpacking stories you can find anywhere, and it's all printed on hefty 80-pound paper with fewer ads than any other magazine. Stories in this latest issue include:

• Photos from a weeks-long bikepacking trip across the ancient Incan Empire and the story of the photographer's horrific injury there, 
• A profile of the team behind the latest entry into the adventure GPS app wars, 
• A writer's exploration of the Northern Rockies' Great Burn Recommended Wilderness and the conflict still roiling there, 
• Photos from a spectacular trip on the Tatshenshini River as the photographer struggles with her relationship with her father,
• The story of Puerto Rico's first long-distance trail and the author's thru-hike of it,
• Opinion stories about why Bill Bryson is wrong, why we need to let each other pass on the trail, and why the San Gabriels are a beautiful mess,
• One writer's experiment with the new sport of fastpacking,
• Miranda Webster's explanation of the pack shakedown in her "Trail Obscura" column, 
• The recipe for a delicious SPAM musubi bowl,
• Backpacking trip recommendations from Glacier National Park to South Dakota's Black Hills and Arizona canyons, 
• A look at what it means to "cheat" on a thru-hike and why we might be genetically predisposed to backpack,
• Outhouse Reviews, backpacking destinations, gear reviews, photo features, maps, 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 7 while supplies last. 

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