Ooooh yeah. Having gone from dad's 2xD-cell flashlight with carbon-zinc batteries that broke the bulb AND lens first time you dropped it on Boy Scout camping trips to today's zillion-lux LED headlamps that run 100 hours and would survive a trip through a woodchipper, I can't think of another piece of camping technology that's progressed further.
Cheers,
Hey, Bill - remember when camp lighting got revolutionized with the little plastic mouthpiece you slipped over the end of the Mini-Maglite, so you didn't have to hold the cold metal in your teeth? I think that was the first Nite-Ize product, maybe? Then came the headband, and we were in high cotton!
I was using a Princeton Tec Scout because it had the little bumpout that fit over the switch when vertical, to prevent accidental switch-ons. Last week, after my first group trip in a while, I changed to a Petzl Zipka (2 Plus?) which has both a white and red light option. After hiking alone or with one or two other people, at most, for quite a while, I had forgotten how easy it is to shine your white headlamp in other people's eyes when there are 6 or 8 of you sitting in a circle. (I finally figured out why all their headlamps had red bulbs. Duh!)
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