The light goes faster than you expect. At sunset the hill is still clear and golden; half an hour later colours have gone, the path is a grey stripe, and the stream you planned to use as a handrail is a sound somewhere to your left. You switch on your head torch at full power. Now you can see a bright circle of grass three metres across, and nothing at…
In this lesson
Planning for darkness
Night vision: dark adaptation
Torch discipline
Walking a bearing at night
Using the sky and lights
Pacing and timing in the dark
Worked example
Leg design at night
Dead reckoning on featureless ground
Check yourself
Key points
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