In all honesty, when I first got it, I wasn’t overly taken with the look of the Wyldwood Waterproof Hiking Shell from Columbia’s OutDry Extreme range – mainly (actually, entirely ...

To help, we tested a wide range of hiking pants from brands like Columbia, Mountain Hardwear, and Fjällräven, to find the industry's best. Here are our favorite hiking pants currently available.

Steve Andrews tested the pants in the coastal rainforest and craggy bluffs of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, a place with thousands of miles of hiking trails. The humid climate lends ...