You don’t have to thru-hike a whole Triple Crown Trail to get a taste of wild America. James Roddie experiences summits, camps and canyons on a two-week tour of the Golden State

YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAIL

Switzerland is rich, especially in clichés. Many are largely true. There are some I’m not so interested in – banking, precision watches, nuclear shelters and referendums. But others, I certainly am –

Fancy doing something achievable yet ludicrous? The Land’s End Trial is 16 hours of mud, rocks and bacon sarnies. And it’s utterly fantastic…

The 125K race starts in Inverie, a remote village on the Knoydart peninsula, accessible only by a boat or two-day hike. There is an extremely lively community-owned pub plus an impressively stocked co

FIGHTING ALL THE WAY TO THE FINISH