Men's Hiking Trousers - Lightweight Quick-Dry Stretch Walking Trousers

Order your usual waist size: they come in 30 to 42 and customers call the waist true to size, with the included belt to fine-tune it. One honest note: they come in a single leg length, and a reviewer at the shorter end found the leg slightly long. If you normally buy a short leg, expect to turn them up once. Check the size guide on this page against your measurements before you order.

No. They have a water-repellent finish, which means light rain, splashes and wet grass bead up and roll off instead of soaking in, and whatever does get through dries fast. In a proper downpour they will wet out, like any trouser without a membrane, and that's when you pull overtrousers on. The difference is that these are dry again shortly after it stops.

Walking, no: your legs make heat and the mesh lining keeps the fabric off your skin so it doesn't feel cold and wet. The thing that makes people cold on a hill is sitting down in damp trousers, and these dry while you walk, so there's nothing left to go cold when you stop. For sleet, standing snow and long static days, you want the insulated pair instead.

That's exactly what they're made for. The fabric is light and the mesh lining keeps it off your skin, so air moves and sweat doesn't stick. Customers wear them for warm-weather walking and holidays abroad. If you want even more airflow, roll the hem, but most people don't need to.

Four ways, and the knees are cut with a built-in bend. A high step onto a stile, a scramble, crouching to tie a lace: the fabric gives instead of pulling at the knee or the seat, and it goes back to shape afterwards rather than bagging out.

Five, all zipped: two thigh pockets, two hand pockets and one back pocket. A phone goes in the thigh pocket without digging into your hip when you sit, and nothing falls out on a rock or a car seat. No open pockets to lose a key from.

They're a hard-wearing weave for a lightweight trouser and they take ordinary trail punishment, nettles included. They're not a canvas work trouser: if your walks are mostly hacking through brambles, something heavier will last longer. For paths, hills and coast, these do the job.

Machine wash cool, hang to dry, and they're dry before you've put the kettle on. Skip the fabric softener and the tumble dryer: softener clogs the water-repellent finish and heat is bad for the stretch. Zip the pockets before washing so the zips don't catch.

Not really, and that's deliberate. The cut is straight and plain, the pockets are flat zips rather than bulging cargo pouches, and the colours are solid. Trail in the morning, lunch in town, airport in the evening, same pair. That's why "the trousers you forget you have on" is how customers describe them.

Five to choose from: Black, Navy, Dark Grey, Army Green and Stone Green. Same fabric, same pockets, same belt in all of them. The darker shades hide a muddy season best; the greens look most at home on the hill.

Send them back. They're covered by the 30-day return policy. If the fit's the issue, start with the size guide above — the waist runs true to size, the leg runs on the long side — and the belt takes care of the rest.