Anybody Walk At Night?

Razor

Razor

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I sometimes like to walk the dogs at night, and try out new flashlights. Does anyone else do this? It is also cooler at night. What are some of your favorite lights?
 
I love night walks. :)

Normally I have my Surefire E2DL (two modes, high and low). Compact and very bright. :thumbup:
 
LOVE to hike at night but mostly i dont use a flashlight. If i do need one when walking on some tricky trail i use a princtontech head light or a AAmaglight converted to LED.

Sasha
 
I love night walking, either hills or forests. Partly because there is no one else around (usually) but mainly I just love the feeling. The air is crisper and fresher, everything is quiet apart from the occasional animal... fantastic!

I mainly stick to nights with a good moon as I prefer not to have to use a flashlight at all. Just let the eyes adapt first. Thick forest though sometimes needs the light, as dim as it will go to do the job.

Brewing up with a small fire, or occasionally the kelly kettle, and enjoying the fire and hot tea on a moonlit hilltop is something to savour. Or just lighting a fire for the hell of it and sipping a good scotch.

If my ankle wasn't out of order I would have gone out a few nights ago - I really wanted to. That's still a few months off though, at least.

I never, ever go without at least three flashlights though ;)
 
I love to walk at nights, but there's very little use for a flashlight in Hollywood. I do carry a big stick with me (cane).
 
i prefer them at night in familiar area not in deep woods though...i just feel that it might be to dangerious sometimes.
 
savagesicslayer said:
I hike at night sometimes.I work nights so I don't always get to hike at the peak of the day.
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Same here 3rd shift, nobody's up and I just go out for a couple of hours with my surefire g2, but like others I like the moonlight to lead my way!!!!!
 
Razor said:
I sometimes like to walk the dogs at night, and try out new flashlights. Does anyone else do this? It is also cooler at night. What are some of your favorite lights?
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Similar outcomes. I work 12 hour night shifts so often take a run around the neighborhood on my lunch breaks. I always have a Surefire E2D (obsolete bulb), Inova T1 (likely an older obsolete model), or a Fenix PD20 in my hand.

It is fun to practice "quick flash" and "accuracy flash" on various targets like stop signs or dark bushes.
 
I used to run at night all the time until I moved to Columbus.

It used to be:

pro - cooler
con - gnats get stuck to your sweat

Now it's:

pro - cooler
con - possible murder
 
I forgot to say which flashlights I usually take. It's varied over the years of course, including at times a 6 D-cell Maglite and one of those cheap million candle power rechargeable things.

These days I usually have a zebralight for hands-free use, it also fits on a rucksack front strap quite nicely. Also a Jetbeam, I forget the model but it's a single-AA, and a Tiablo A8 for reaching out.


I started night walking when I was about 12, when my parents moved house and there was a big (to me, at the time) wooded area opposite us. I've always had a very 'active' imagination, well into fantasy, horror and SciFi type stuff, and I used to scare myself stupid at times in those woods. Never stopped me going again, but I never went in there without a big knife!

Once, I was moving quietly along a track through the woods, no lights on, when I either heard or felt, never been sure which, something watching me to my right. I froze and slowly turned my head, to come almost face-to-face with a huge owl. We looked at each other for what must have been a full minute, until I decided it was time to go and moved carefully off.
 
Night time = dog walking time. It's the only chance to get them off the leash in an urban environment. I use a Fenix TK10 or Led Lenser P7, both work well for that purpose :thumbup:

But I'm not sure how Zen manages jogging in a trench coat for his "quick flash" :D
 
I EDC a Fenix P2D and carry a G3 with a Malkoff M60 when more light might be needed.

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I started running at night about two months ago (I'm in the process of improving my second most important survival tool - my body) and I carry a SO-LED clipped to the back of my t-shirt collar. I'm in a suburban area so I don't normally need it for illuminating my path, but it lights up my back in an effort to avoid getting run over by a car.
 
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