Gear of the Week | Headlamp

A lot of time has passed since then and a headlamp is probably regularly found in everyone's backpack or on their head. After all, whether you're going for an evening walk, spending the night in a winter room, reading in a hut camp or going for a winter run before work - it doesn't work in the dark, or at least only to a limited extent. A headlamp provides the necessary light and leaves your hands free. If you always had to carry a flashlight around with you, many activities such as pitching a tent would be difficult. Others, such as skiing, would be quite unrelaxing to say the least.

In general, it's really amazing how much light you can get from relatively small lamps these days. Compared to a modern high-performance headlamp, my Petzl Tikka, which is over 10 years old, is a real sparkle and even for night-time skiing or mountain biking excursions, there are suitable lamps that don't tear a hole in your backpack (although perhaps in your wallet) for weight reasons. Whether you really need a connection to your smartphone or an automatic brightness control on your headlamp is still a little unclear to me. However, it is certain that in future I will still prefer to have one headlamp too many in my pack rather than too few.