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Trash-Free Trails: Transforming Outdoor Adventures by Cutting Trail Plastic Pollution

Up to 23 times more plastic escapes into terrestrial ecosystems than our oceans, yet the State of Our Trails report written by Trash Free Trails is the first of its kind. We want to help to reduce single-use pollution on our trails and encourage people to reconnect with nature.

Together with the route planning app, komoot, grassroots community organisation, Trash Free Trails, and like-minded friends, we define what it means to have a purposeful adventure, from wild camping to running, cycling and swimming, to inspire community-led stewardship of our trails.

In a series of short guides, we aim to understand the causes and impacts of single-use pollution, to protect our trails and leave them in a better state than before. Join us as we guide you on an overnight bikepacking adventure in the Lomond Hills, a wild camping trip around South Uist by packraft and fatbike, a run across a myriad of criss cross trails near Leeds and a series of beach cleans and cold water swims on the South Coast of the UK.


Travel Notes
  • No Free Step: Tackling the Drakensberg Grande Traverse

    I can’t remember who it was, but around five years ago a person told me that I should try the Drakensberg Grande Traverse. I looked at them and – to be honest – thought they were completely crazy. Attempting to trail-run an unmarked route of approximately 220km through one of South Africa’s harshest and most rugged mountain ranges seemed at best foolish, and at worst, utterly dangerous and unachievable. But formidable as the traverse stood, there lay a challenge within the madness of those m

  • Exploring Dartmoor: Foraging & Wild Cooking in Devon

    This is the second in our foraging and wild cooking series exploring different landscapes and ingredients within the UK. To follow the routes and for more ideas, visit Viewranger.com.  Mist still clings to the ivy-twined walls bracketing our car as we ease carefully through the narrow lanes of Devon. Passing through one small village, I sense little change in the landscape or pace of life from when I last lived and worked in this neck of the woods over a decade ago. The rumble of tyres over

  • Orizaba Expedition: 140 Miles Biking, Summit Climb, and 80 Miles Packrafting to the Gulf

    In celebration of the launch of the brand new Sidetracked Volume Seven, we’re releasing one story online from each of our previous issues. In this story from Volume One, Luc, Jim, Steve and Todd travelled to Mexico City, bought cheap bikes, cycled 140 miles, climbed Orizaba – the tallest mountain in Mexico – and then packrafted 80 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. JIM: With packrafts rolled in tight burritos and strapped to our handlebars, we roll into the rising sun. The very first pothole loos