Trails Magazine Issue 9
Trails Magazine Issue 9
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Issue 9 of Trails Magazine features 108 pages of high-quality journalism, photography, and artwork, including the inaugural Editors' Lists. These three lists—each highlighting a specific place and time to go backpacking—replace the outdated and unhelpful “best of 2025” lists so prevalent elsewhere. We’re lending more weight to the lowly packing list, reintroducing critical context to editors' picks, and working hard to earn the trust of skeptical readers.
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:
- A look at a curious phenomenon taking place in the Northern Rockies where bears, humans, and moths meet,
- A photo feature documenting one artist's work to preserve melting glaciers by sealing them in hot wax,
- The story of how gorpcore blurred the line between fashion and function,
- A bikepacking novice's journey through the Moroccan desert,
- A look inside the factory of Alpaca Raft,
- A recipe for backcountry trout tacos,
- One writer's attempt to go backpacking wearing only clothes she found at Goodwill,
- A trip report from two paddlers who canoed from Minnesota to the Arctic,
- Looks at backpacking destinations in the North Cascades, Gore Range, Apostle Islands, and beyond,
- One writer's thoughts on whether or not the UL community is prone to waste, a review of a revolutionary new bear canister, Vantage Points, 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 9 while supplies last.
Want to guarantee you get a copy of Issue 10 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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