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Posted by Bill S on March 27, 2007 at 12:53:23 pm EDT
In reply to Re: Headlamps & Lithium batteries posted by richgs on March 26, 2007 at 3:10:55 pm EDT

Headlamps are another one of those items that seem to have strong advocates of each brand and model. On Kili, I assume you will be going up by one of the trail routes - "CocaCola", "Whiskey", or the Breach, and not one of the technical climbing routes. If so, probably any of the better all-LED lamps is fine. You won't need a long-distance spot beam, so one of the more diffuse multi-LED with 3 light levels should work. Black Diamond and Petzl both make several models like this. Some people like Princeton Tec, though the one we got had some problems and not as uniform a light distribution. Kili is not likely to get cold enough to warrant the separated battery pack that you wear inside your jacket - the ones with the batteries in a compartment on the back of your head or in the headlamp unit itself are just fine. The all-LED ones have enough battery life that you probably can get along with just one extra set of batteries (2 total sets).

One thing about headlamps, though, especially the diffuse beam ones - if you have to hike through thick fog, you will be almost blind if you are wearing it on your head, thanks to the back-scatter off the fog. In that case, just hold the lamp in your hand at waist level. This puts the beam enough off the side to reduce the back-scatter a bit.

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