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"If you are really stuck for a headtorch, take an ordinary torch, best you can get hold of. You will find that in mist you tend to take headtorches off anyway and hold them at about waist level because the beam just bounces right back into your eyes otherwise."
Cheers Marg . I've just been & bought a Myolite and some spare batteries (£25 total) and i'll take my Tikka & Zipka as back up. I'll report back after weekend
Good luck to all on the double attempt
I'm tying to make the cut offs as well (was doing ok on the Ennerdale but decided to try a new route round Haystacks and ended up doing a bit of scrambling :o )Quote:
Originally Posted by FellShoeShuffler
If any ones up for it they are welcome to join me :eek:
Bill
Wonderful! I was just looking into getting a headtorch for those glorious early-morning sessions :D and I thought I'd pop in here to see if anybody had any suggestions. Couldn't have timed it better. Thanks, guys!
I thought just Ennerdale was audacious enough! I also have a had a plan to do the Lakeland Classics in winter for some time now but mine differs in that I was going to do them in daylight but over 6 consecutive days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baggins
Sorry, this is off thread - I'll start a new one.. :o
Was going to report on Myolite Head torch, but hardly used it as weather was perfect. Seemed very bright. for the short while it was used, but it wasn't really dark enough to be put under the test.
It was much brighter than the std. Tikkas & Zipkas.
The other navigator had a basic wind up hand held torch which was much brighter!!!
I just want to rave about my Silva LX which arrived yesterday (79.94 inc P&P from www.sailgb.com) - I tried it out last night and it's fantastic :-)
I've had the Petzl Myo 5 and also the Petzl Myo XP and found them under powered and difficult to run with. I've never used the big Silva lamps - the cost and fuss with batteries put me off.
I charged the battery with the auto charger, put it in the waistbelt, ran the lead down the inside of my top (to avoid catching the wire and to enable easy taking on/off of my windproof), clipped on the diffuser and was ready to go :-)
Whereas my previous night-time runs had been an adventure - this was just fun and I found I could mostly ignore the fact that I was wearing a headtorch. I got a bright enough spot to see the ground clearly, but also good peripheral vision. I could read a map, look at my watch, look in my bumbag, take my top on/off (all without stopping or fiddling with the torch), follow faint tracks in the grass. Stiles and gates didn't jump out of the dark at me, and I only stumbled once. For most of the way the only limit on speed was my fitness. The only real problem I had was when I put on my hat...
The charger is no fuss - 6 hrs for a complete charge - and then it lasts for 15hrs at full power. The only real problem I had was that I'll have to change the waistbelt as the one supplied is elastic. I think it'll do me now for everything, except that for night time races I might consider one of the big Silva ones, as the LX uses the same battery and charger, so it's only £80 to upgrade.
Highly recommended :-)
mine arrived in post this morning.. got it on your recommendation. Looking forward to giving it a go.. anything is going to be better than the one I've been using which I'll pass on to my wife.. I note you used the diffuser which says is for close-up work??
i enjoyed that.. really good piece of kit.
Glad you liked it too nikalas. I've had a bad cough almost ever since that post so I've only managed to use it a few times yet.
Did you use the diffuser?