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Re: Excellent light-weight LED torch

I have only once had a tent collapse on me and I felt absolutely no need to bail out at all and I did not need a head torch.

I was halfway up Helvellyn forty years ago in a new-fangled single skin tent (a Blacks of Greenock "Yukon") which was not very storm proof as it happens. Supper had been a chocolate fudge cake, a can of pilchards and half a bottle of whisky. It was as well that it was windy as the environment inside the tent was pretty rank.

When the tent blew down (severalteen times, I seem to recall) it was no great deal. There *was* a lot of flapping, but mostly from Wilky, whose tent it was. I sent him outside into the hurricane in his underpants to re-peg the thing.

I'm not sure if he had a torch or not.


Re: Excellent light-weight LED torch

alan.sloman
I sent him outside into the hurricane in his underpants to re-peg the thing.
I'm not sure if he had a torch or not.


That clarifies a lot about the Invermallie incident, and the Spean Bridge revelations.

As I said, I haven't needed a torch, but I will still carry one.
And to be honest 60g is a lot less weight than a Wilky even a dry one!

Re: Excellent light-weight LED torch

For what would you be needing an extra torch.If you've
bedded down with kit everywhere maybe!.
Tent in trouble ? . Leave your night kit on.Your
day kit "should" be waiting tidy for morning.Put that
complete in the sac.What else is there?.Stove and
pan waiting for breakfast. Put those in the sac complete.
Put your outer gear on and boots, sit and wait for
daylight. Why leave your "shelter"however bad it
is outside, its safer inside.It won't blow away with you in it.
It may if you climb out in the rain/wind/snow.
So the extra"£60"just in case could be put to better
use. What else would you take extra "just in case"?.
Iv'e had a few collapsed tents in the last seventy years
"but never bailed out in the night in a storm. Cheers.

Re: Excellent light-weight LED torch

I agree with Humphrey that the LED Lensers are fantastic torches but the L1 is a bit of overkill (unless you want the ability to fry small animals from a distance -could be handy) so why not scale down the cost and weight but still get an epic torch? @m@z0n are currently offering the LED Lenser P3 (runs off a single AAA but is still astonishingly bright and focusable) for £8.39 including free delivery, leaving plenty of spare cash for single malted beverages...

Re: Excellent light-weight LED torch

Ah yes, I suspect I may have been Martin's akto worrier. I was camped in a very deep valley between Sanquhar and Wanlockhead - chosen cos the valley was running in the opposite direction to the wind, and, therefore as calm as your Aunty Mary when she got her first librium prescription.
Bloody wind changed dinnit and started hurricaning up the valley/wind tunnel at about two am. Plus pancake-sized snowflakes wot I didn;t want to go out in. The akto flattened a few times but as soon as it came light I was off to Sanquhar station (damply) for the train back to Pieland.
It may have been a poor selection of camping spot. But we all makes mistakes innit? Dim Dwff Torchio!

Re: Excellent light-weight LED torch

Yes, the P3 lenser is effective and a lot cheaper than yer man's model. I don't need to see 150 metres when I get up in the middle of the night, I just like to see the environs of my feet.

Re: Excellent light-weight LED torch

I really don't want to see my feet AT ALL . . .

And I use a torch often - where I live there are no streetlights, no pavements, and some very large fields, woods, thickets together with the River Tweed. If one of my dogs (usually Gazza) takes a notion to gnash off after an enticing scent I need to be able to see the little butter. In and immediately around the tent I use one of those cute little Petzls.