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Pioneer Camp trousers and shorts

Stretch hiking trousers, cargo trousers with five and six pockets, convertible zip-off pairs, fleece-lined winter trousers, joggers, and shorts from a four-inch running cut to an eighteen-inch walking length.

  • 81 styles
  • 197 colourways
  • XS to 3XL size run

Pioneer Camp pair

The inseam is the first decision and it is the one a photograph will not make for you. The short end of this shelf is running and training: four, five and seven inches, quick-dry, usually with a zip pocket at the back for a key. Seven to nine is the hiking length most people settle on. Fourteen and eighteen are walking shorts that reach the knee and read as trousers on a hot street. On the long side, the hiking trousers are the stretch nylon ones: light, water-resistant, quick to dry, and the convertible pairs unzip at the knee when the morning turns into an afternoon. Cargo trousers add the thigh pockets, which is where a phone can live without slapping your leg at every step. The fleece-lined pairs are for a cold walk rather than a cold trail: warm, but not quick to dry once they are wet. Sizes run XS to 3XL, with waist-by-length sizing on part of the shelf.

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Pioneer Camp trousers

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Pioneer Camp hiking trousers

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Pioneer Camp shorts

Pioneer Camp Men's Shorts 5"

Shorts

Pioneer Camp Men's Shorts 5"

  • Zip pockets
  • Sizes S to 3XL
  • 75% cotton, 5% polyester, 5% spandex

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from $24.99
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Pioneer Camp joggers

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Prices are the figures from our last update; we refresh them on a schedule, which is the least glamorous part of the Pioneer Camp way, and the figure at the till is the one that counts.

07Before you order

Questions about Pioneer Camp trousers and shorts

Which inseam ends where, which trousers zip off into shorts, and which pocket takes a phone without it slapping your leg.

Which Pioneer Camp shorts inseam ends where on you?

Measure a pair you already like from the crotch seam to the hem and match the number. As a rough map on an average leg: four and five inches sit high on the thigh and are running lengths, seven is the one most people settle on for walking, nine reaches mid-thigh, and fourteen and eighteen reach or pass the knee and read as trousers on a hot street.

Do Pioneer Camp convertible trousers actually work as shorts?

The legs unzip at the knee and come off, and what you are left with is a walking short rather than a running one, at the length the zip line sits. The zip is the compromise: it is a seam across the knee you can feel when you kneel, and it is the price of not carrying a second pair on a morning that turns hot.

Which Pioneer Camp trousers have a pocket a phone will sit still in?

The cargo trousers, and the answer is the thigh pocket rather than the hip one: a phone in a hip pocket slaps your leg at every step on a descent, and on the thigh it stays put. The card prints the pocket count for each pair and says where they zip, and the pairs with no cargo pocket say so by not printing one.

Every Pioneer Camp layer, every size

Every size, colourway and fill in the Pioneer Camp catalogue sits behind this button, with the price from our last update against each one.