Outdoor Retailer: Headlamp Highlights

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It may be the dark days of winter, but there's no shortage of illuminating products to light your way on the trail, the road, or in camp. Here are a few highlights in the headlamp category shown at Outdoor Retailer Winter Market last week. Black Diamond Storm ...

Full article at http://www.trailspace.com/blog/2011/01/28/or-illuminations-headlamps.html

LEDs really deserve the term 'revolution' when it comes to the outdoors. You can buy as much light as you want now or you can have something useful for a few dollars/pounds. Cycling is getting safer as well. But I wish they would start including free lights on new packs/rucksacks, like they do with whistles, as some people still go walking (or cycling) without them in the winter.

Though all the gadgets in the world won't help some people:

1 January  
18:59 Cat Bells - Maiden Moor are:

A man, walking alone, reported himself to be lost in the Cat Bells area. We spoke to him on his mobile phone and were able to ascertain that he had a torch and GPS and was on a path. Putting everything together, he was advised to walk downhill to, hopefully, arrive in Grange village - which he did by 20:15 hrs.

Is that MSRP  of $16 on the Black Diamond storm correct? If it is I will be getting one as soon as it is available!

gonzan said:

Is that MSRP  of $16 on the Black Diamond storm correct? If it is I will be getting one as soon as it is available!

Sorry, gonzan. That was my editing fault. The actual Storm MSRP is $49.95.

You were right that it sounded too good to be true.

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Haha! that's no problem problem at all Alicia :)

$50 for that light is still pretty good.

PS- Dave, the post above is an example of that weird glitch I mentioned...

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