BlackStrap Women’s Approach Camp Button Down Shirt

Review by Erin Trail

The BlackStrap Women’s Approach Camp Button Down Shirt is an easy to wear lightweight shirt that’s ready to hit the trail or the patio.

BlackStrap Women's Approach Camp Button Down Shirt
BlackStrap Women’s Approach Camp Button Down Shirt

Details

  • 100% recycled polyester woven ripstop – 95 GSM
  • Relaxed fit
  • Lens wipe
  • Sunglasses loop
  • Rear side zipper pocket

Review

The BlackStrap Women’s Approach Camp Button Down Shirt is a great camp shirt.

I’m a size medium on the BlackStrap size guide.  I found the size medium in the Women’s Approach Camp Button Down Shirt to be way to big and I sized down to a small.  The small, while still relaxed, fits much better.

BlackStrap Women's Approach Camp Button Down Shirt
BlackStrap Women’s Approach Camp Button Down Shirt

The BlackStrap Women’s Approach Camp Button Down Shirt is easy to care for and easy to wear.  It doesn’t wrinkle, making it an ideal travel shirt.  I often swim at the gym before work, which means I pack my bag the night prior with office clothes.  I can toss the Approach Camp Shirt in my bag carelessly and it looks great.

The Approach Camp shirt is very light weight, but isn’t delicate.  I’ve worn the shirt on a few mountain bike rides and it has held up nicely, even under a hydration pack.

The BlackStrap Women’s Approach Camp Button Down Shirt fabric is very lightweight, which makes it super breathable and moisture wicking.

Side Zipper Pocket
Side Zipper Pocket

I love the bonus features built into the shirt.  While it lacks some of the features found in the men’s shirt of the same style (why?!?!), women do get a nice little side zipper pocket that’s not in the men’s version. This pocket is perfect for smaller items: keys, IDs, or snacks.

The lens wipe that’s inside the lower hem of the shirt is also a nice – and unexpected – feature.

Lens Wipe
Lens Wipe

I also love how this shirt is styled.  It’s a camp shirt, so it’s intended for the trail or to be worn at camp.  The shirt is nice enough, however, to double as a casual office shirt, or as a nice collared item for heading out in town.

The BlackStrap Women’s Approach Camp Button Down Shirt is available in four colorways and in sizes ranging from XS to XL.

Erin Trail

Trail Boss of Stoke

Erin Trail’s hobby is collecting hobbies. She’s a 5th Generation Coloradan and grew up exploring the outdoors on family camping trips and hikes.  Her first backpacking trip was at eight years old to Grizzly Reservoir – she proudly carried all of her own gear those 3 miles from the main parking lot to the Reservoir.
Erin Trail of Engearment.com
Erin Trail of Engearment.com
Erin is an adult-onset athlete who started as a Masters Swimmer and then developed into a triathlete.  She has completed 5 Ironman races and nearly 20 x 70.3 distance Ironman races, including the World Championship in Lahti, Finland, in 2023.  In 2025, she raced for Team USA in Pontevedra, Spain for the World Triathlon Cross Tri World Championship. She placed 9th in her age group and was the 1st American woman in her age group.
Somewhere along her triathlon journey, she picked up deep love of cycling. Cycling encouraged her to see landscapes in a new way, learn new skills and to develop self reliance; now she often goes and does Type 2 rides just to see if she can do it.  She’s got all the bikes: gravel, mountain, fat bike, time trial and road.
She is even known to combine her love of camping and cycling and go off on solo 24 hour overnight bikepacking trips in the mountains of Colorado. In addition to bikes, she teaches yoga, lifts weights, skis, SUPs and has recently purchased a campervan.

Erin is a former Montana park ranger with a degree in environmental engineering.  She loves getting into technical details while putting her gear (and herself) through the paces. She shares her home in Colorado with her husband, Will, and her 3 cats (Zipper, Brewtus, and Simcoe).
Fall and winter 2025 will bring Erin to the “Adventure Side”, with many camping, vanlife, bikepacking, and mountain bike rides. Once the snow flies, she can be find resort skiing, fat biking, and triathlon training (inside and outside).
In 2026 Erin took the National Championship in her Age Group for the USA Triathlon Cross Tri. She’s also racing the a National Championship Road Sprint and Olympic Distance race in Milwaukee and a few other off road triathlons and bike races.  In 2027, she will represent Team USA at the World Championship Cross Triathlon in Edmonton, Canada. She’ll also save lots of room for adventure time with her friends and husband.
When not adventuring, she can be found on a sunny patio somewhere, drinking beers with her husband.

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