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<blockquote data-quote="permaculture" data-source="post: 524626" data-attributes="member: 35296"><p>I now try to carry at least one spare, if not two.</p><p> </p><p>Back in 2010, I was part of a party of 4 that climbed Pikes Peak for what was supposed to be a day hike. After summiting, the guy I knew and his wife decided to get a ride down, but I and the woman in the party whom I met only that day decided to walk the 13 miles back to the parking lot. </p><p> </p><p>Long story short is she became sick on the way down, later being diagnosed and hospticalized with food poisoning and we did not get off the mountain until 10:30 PM which is pitch black in those woods.</p><p> </p><p>I had a flashlight with me that I checked before the hike but it failed to start when I needed it. It was an LED type and had new batteries, but for some reason it failed. The woman had a headlamp that ran on watch batteries and eventually that died. She did not have spare batteries nor a screwdriver to open it.</p><p> </p><p>Now I have at least one backup. I also had the same model flashlight as the one that failed get very hot while not in use - so hot it was almost a fire hazard, so I threw that one out too. Cheap Wal-Mart things. The LEDs have some sort of electronics that can fail.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="permaculture, post: 524626, member: 35296"] I now try to carry at least one spare, if not two. Back in 2010, I was part of a party of 4 that climbed Pikes Peak for what was supposed to be a day hike. After summiting, the guy I knew and his wife decided to get a ride down, but I and the woman in the party whom I met only that day decided to walk the 13 miles back to the parking lot. Long story short is she became sick on the way down, later being diagnosed and hospticalized with food poisoning and we did not get off the mountain until 10:30 PM which is pitch black in those woods. I had a flashlight with me that I checked before the hike but it failed to start when I needed it. It was an LED type and had new batteries, but for some reason it failed. The woman had a headlamp that ran on watch batteries and eventually that died. She did not have spare batteries nor a screwdriver to open it. Now I have at least one backup. I also had the same model flashlight as the one that failed get very hot while not in use - so hot it was almost a fire hazard, so I threw that one out too. Cheap Wal-Mart things. The LEDs have some sort of electronics that can fail. [/QUOTE]
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