---- JRodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com> wrote:
> I use the LED's in the shop, and carry one in each vehicle. But in camp
> - I prefer the yellow glow of a kerosene lamp or none at all. Actually,
> if you give your eyes time to adjust, and don't turn on a white light,
> when you step out of the van for nightly duties, the night-glow from the
> universe is enough to see by - unless it is totally overcast and/or a
> "dark and stormy night". If/when rustic camping out in the boonies - you
> can get feeling of the ancients.

Well, I camp on occasion where nights can be quite warm, and such critters as copperheads, cottonmouths, and rattlers are known to be about.  I use an electric torch for moving about once it gets dark.  mcneely

>
> John
>
> On 9/2/2012 12:58 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
> > 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
> >

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David McNeely