Terms of Use
pioneer-camp.net is the catalogue of Pioneer Camp clothing for cold mornings, wet afternoons and long days in open light. It is a place to read what a piece is filled with, how heavy the fleece is, how many pockets it carries and how it is cut, before you buy it. It is not a shop till.
Where the sale happens
Payment, delivery and returns happen at checkout with our retail partner, not on this site. They set the price you pay, they hold the stock, they ship it, and their returns policy is the one that applies to the parcel.
How to read a price here
A figure on this site is the one from our last catalogue update, and it can move between updates. Where the two disagree, the till is right. A piece with no live offer does not carry a stale number: it leaves the site at the next build and comes back when it is on sale again. How the figures are refreshed, and which sources stand behind the sun and label claims, is set out on how we update the catalogue.
Fill power, fleece weight and insulation
Where a card prints a fill power, it is the figure our product data carries for the down in that jacket, and it describes the loft of the fill rather than the warmth of the finished garment: a 650-fill jacket with more down in it can be warmer than an 800-fill jacket with less. Where a card prints a weight in grams per square metre, that is the fleece, and a 400 gsm fleece is a heavier cloth than a 200 gsm one. Neither figure is a temperature rating, and this site does not give one.
Waterproof and water-resistant
A piece is called waterproof here only where the product data calls it waterproof, and water-resistant where it says water-resistant. The two are different promises: a taped-seam shell is built to keep rain out, a water-resistant softshell is built to shrug off a shower and stop. Where a millimetre rating appears it comes from the same data. Nothing on this site tells you how long either will hold up under a downpour.
How to read a size
Sizes run XS to 5XL depending on the cut, and the card prints the run for that piece. A size letter describes the garment, not you: hold the chart on the buying page against your own tape rather than against the letter you buy in jeans. On an insulated jacket meant to go over a fleece, the larger of two letters leaves room for the layer underneath; on a base layer meant to sit against the skin, the smaller one does its job better.
UPF, fabric and washing
A UPF figure on a card is the figure from our product data, printed as the label gives it, and it describes dry, unstretched cloth: a garment that is wet or pulled tight lets more sun through, and the sources named on the page say so. Fibre content on a card comes from the same data and describes the cloth. The label sewn into the garment is the document that governs washing, and where it and a page here disagree, the label wins. Nothing on this site promises how a piece holds its loft, its water repellency or its colour through a season.
What we do not promise
Nothing here is medical advice, and no page on this site claims that a piece of clothing prevents a sunburn, prevents frostbite or keeps anyone safe in weather. The pages describe how a piece is cut, what it is filled with, what it carries and what the label says. What that does for you on a ridge at four in the afternoon is between you and the day.
The pictures and the words
The photographs and the text on this site are ours or our suppliers'. Take a paragraph for a quote with a link back and we will not mind; take the catalogue wholesale and we will.
Anything unclear: basecamp@pioneer-camp.net.