LittleBill
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Not sure if in the right place but led flashlights were used.
SO my girlfriend puts up with my small flashlight hobby. slightly before Halloween, she shows me an ad for a corn maze at night, says bring a flashlight and do the maze at night. i think awesome!.
so after reading on here the past couple years, i realize i may not want to go into this with my tk40 on turbo.... and since Halloween i figure lets make it slightly scary
i scrounged up 2 of the crappiest lights i have ever seen, pictures can be added if needed. put in half dead cells and figured might make it 20 minutes before they crap out. i also took a half dead maglight. which sadly was considerably brighter.
the lights are so crappy, the free keychain lights that lighthound gives free, or the 10 pack from DX were MILES above these lights.
i also take my ld20 r4 and tk40 as backup in case the lights fail.
we get to the corn maze, realize its larger then expected about 5 acres and although there is some lighting a good 3/4 is in deep darkness.
i hand my g/f her light she turns it on , looks at it, looks at me and says are you kidding me. (got to say it made me smile. shes become use to my fenix lights). i tell her lets make it scary and just go with it. she does and off we go. 3 minutes in she tells me she wants a fenix i tell her no and we continue. she goes on to tell me these are the crappiest lights she has ever seen. makes me proud i did a good job getting junk.
i am also curious to see what other people brought, this is really the only function i have been to where flashlights are expected.
Unbelievably within 20 minutes i have come to ridiculous conclusion that my crap flashlights are on par if not better then 90% of the lights there . The maglight which we are not using would have been considered a high quality light.
there are people with mini mags, batteries fried. i mean turning it off would have done nothing. then i found a group with glow sticks, yea 1 foot radius doesn't really help in 5 acres of mazes with no moon. then the best was at least 3 groups with 0 flashlights.......... how is that even fun? i mean parts were barely lit and you need to read clues in the maze.
i was shocked mind blown, credulous that anyone would go in the maze let alone at night without a flashlight, and i don't mean kids, some were 30+ without a flashlight
we eventually went to the ld20 and tk40 both on medium, which compared to everyone else were considered ridiculously bright. i tried turbo but it felt way too much like cheating.
figured you guys would get a kick out of the story....
any similar stories of places where your told to bring a flashlight then don't?
SO my girlfriend puts up with my small flashlight hobby. slightly before Halloween, she shows me an ad for a corn maze at night, says bring a flashlight and do the maze at night. i think awesome!.
so after reading on here the past couple years, i realize i may not want to go into this with my tk40 on turbo.... and since Halloween i figure lets make it slightly scary
i scrounged up 2 of the crappiest lights i have ever seen, pictures can be added if needed. put in half dead cells and figured might make it 20 minutes before they crap out. i also took a half dead maglight. which sadly was considerably brighter.
the lights are so crappy, the free keychain lights that lighthound gives free, or the 10 pack from DX were MILES above these lights.
i also take my ld20 r4 and tk40 as backup in case the lights fail.
we get to the corn maze, realize its larger then expected about 5 acres and although there is some lighting a good 3/4 is in deep darkness.
i hand my g/f her light she turns it on , looks at it, looks at me and says are you kidding me. (got to say it made me smile. shes become use to my fenix lights). i tell her lets make it scary and just go with it. she does and off we go. 3 minutes in she tells me she wants a fenix i tell her no and we continue. she goes on to tell me these are the crappiest lights she has ever seen. makes me proud i did a good job getting junk.
i am also curious to see what other people brought, this is really the only function i have been to where flashlights are expected.
Unbelievably within 20 minutes i have come to ridiculous conclusion that my crap flashlights are on par if not better then 90% of the lights there . The maglight which we are not using would have been considered a high quality light.
there are people with mini mags, batteries fried. i mean turning it off would have done nothing. then i found a group with glow sticks, yea 1 foot radius doesn't really help in 5 acres of mazes with no moon. then the best was at least 3 groups with 0 flashlights.......... how is that even fun? i mean parts were barely lit and you need to read clues in the maze.
i was shocked mind blown, credulous that anyone would go in the maze let alone at night without a flashlight, and i don't mean kids, some were 30+ without a flashlight
we eventually went to the ld20 and tk40 both on medium, which compared to everyone else were considered ridiculously bright. i tried turbo but it felt way too much like cheating.
figured you guys would get a kick out of the story....
any similar stories of places where your told to bring a flashlight then don't?