Only problem with headlamps are when
in buggy areas. They swarm to the light and are in your face. 
A bug in my mouth and I am vomiting with no control. Which 
is why fall is my favorite time of the year to camp! Less bugs!!

Bill
87 Westy

On Sep 2, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> 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