Cody JW wrote:Extremeophile wrote:rlboyce wrote:Idunno... I've heard significantly more good than bad about Stens.
I guess everyone has their own opinion though.
Yes. It's interesting to me that all the criticism I read here about Stens is coming from folks that don't own them. There seems to be a growing contingent of armchair cavers passing judgement on the faults of various headlamps without any first-hand experience.
You do not have to own one to see problems that others have with them when you are in the cave with them.
Well... for what it's worth, I'll invite anyone who has a Sten (regardless of the version) to invite
me on a decent caving trip (hopefully without Dean-sized squeezes
). We can do a joint write-up... maybe even submit it to the NSS News? Even better, if we can find a Scurion (I know at least one person with one)... and I'm ~probably~ going to buy that new Zebralight H600 as a companion lamp... that would be a fun little caving-trip comparison. I doubt anyone I know has a Rude Nora, though. Oh well.
But we should
definitely set up a trip with as many different lights as we can find. Maybe Tumbling Rock?? Solution Rift?
-Dean