I almost never use any light except a headlamp or flashlight outdoors when camping.  In summer, I seldom even use that, except for those excursions after bedtime that nature demands.  I do have LED lamps in the van, and use those if need be.  But gosh, even at my home latitude, there is plenty of light for camp chores until after 9 pm, and up north until 10 or later.

On the other hand, I know folks who haul a generator and run it so they can string up a perimeter of incandescent bulbs around the camp.  I have seen such run all night in places where there was no generator police.

Me, I go for solitude and natural dark.  Quiet, too, when I can get it.

mcneely

---- Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Too bright. I used to bring bright lights -- three dual-mantle Coleman
> "white gas" lanterns -- to light up the campsite (and the sky); now we
> like a little Dietz kerosene lantern. A nice mellow light, sufficient to
> keep from tripping over rocks and guylines, bright enough to find the
> spoon that one drops, but not eye-searing.
>
> But, CYOC: camp your own camp.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
> On 09/02/2012 09:39 AM, Jim Arnott wrote:
> > On Sep 2, 2012, at 9:13 AM, JRodgers wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Designers Edge Clamp-On or Magnetic Bar-B-Que Grill/Workbench
> >> Utility Light
> >>
> >> http://www.amazon.com/Designers-Edge-Clamp-On-Bar-B-Que-Workbench/dp/B000A7BMK0/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1346601903&sr=8-4&keywords=Designers+Edge+Barbeque+Light
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > That's the one I have.
> >
> > Absolutely great porch light.
> >
> > Jim

--
David McNeely