Trail Gear Guide 2022
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TESTING TEAM<br />
TRAIL<br />
AWARDS<br />
MAGAZINE<br />
BEST<br />
IN TEST<br />
Top-scoring product<br />
in comparative<br />
<strong>Trail</strong> tests<br />
MAGAZINE<br />
BEST<br />
VALUE<br />
Best overall<br />
package of price<br />
and performance<br />
in <strong>Trail</strong> tests<br />
Celebrating<br />
sustainable and<br />
ethical gear<br />
releases<br />
OPINIONS YOU CAN TRUST<br />
There’s a lot of very useful info about buying outdoor gear on the internet,<br />
but for every reliable article you’ll find about 1000 rubbish ones. Which is<br />
why we’re so proud to keep bashing out the <strong>Trail</strong> <strong>Gear</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> every year –<br />
100 pages crammed with advice on the very best kit for hillwalkers of all ages<br />
and ability. If you read this magazine regularly you’ll probably recognise a<br />
few of the faces on this page, and we’d like to think you’ll trust their opinions<br />
too. We’ve been publishing <strong>Trail</strong> for over 30 years and many of us have been<br />
working here for a large chunk of those three decades, walking all over the<br />
UK hills and mountains in everything the weather can throw at us. We’re<br />
all very particular and shamelessly geeky about the kit we like to use (what<br />
walker isn’t it?), which means the products we choose to showcase in our<br />
annual gear bible are often the subject of fierce debate. Some of the kit in here<br />
is brand new, some of it we’ve been using for years, and all of it is excellent.<br />
Matt Jones<br />
One of our<br />
regular gear<br />
testers and a selfconfessed<br />
outdoor<br />
kit geek,<br />
Matt is based in<br />
Snowdonia.<br />
Sarah Ryan<br />
Mountain Leader,<br />
outdoor writer and<br />
founder of The Wild<br />
Walk Home, Sarah’s<br />
turned her passion<br />
for wild places into<br />
a career.<br />
Tom Bailey<br />
<strong>Trail</strong>’s photographer<br />
of more than<br />
20 years has tested<br />
more mountain<br />
kit to destruction<br />
than he can<br />
remember.<br />
Ben Weeks<br />
Mountain Leader<br />
and <strong>Trail</strong>’s<br />
long-serving senior<br />
writer Ben is<br />
a huge fan of gnarly,<br />
rocky mountain<br />
routes.<br />
James Forrest<br />
<strong>Trail</strong> gear tester<br />
and peak-bagger<br />
who spends more<br />
time sleeping in<br />
the mountains than<br />
he does in his own<br />
house!<br />
Oli Reed<br />
<strong>Trail</strong>’s editor is a<br />
lifelong walker and<br />
scrambler, who these<br />
days is often spotted<br />
on the hills with<br />
two noisy young<br />
boys in tow.<br />
Jenna Maryniak<br />
<strong>Trail</strong>’s deputy<br />
editor is happiest<br />
when walking<br />
and camping<br />
in the Lake<br />
District with<br />
her dog.<br />
GEAR GUIDE <strong>2022</strong> TRAIL<br />
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