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[QUOTE="KFH, post: 1132417, member: 101354"] Not saying danger doesn't exist at night but this is funny to me because in my experience people are much, much more apt to look around and up and behind while walking in the daytime. When you are out walking at night you tend to focus on your footsteps a lot more and in the immediate area illuminated by whatever light you carry. Most looking around and looking at the sky at night is done while stopped and taking a moment to have a good look. When walking and hiking in the daytime many people tend to look all over the place. "What kind of bird is that?" "Look at the nice clouds over that mountain" "Hey isn't that guy back there in the red jacket the man we met at the cafe?" The ten thousand hiking vlogs on youtube are a great example of not watching where you are going. For me, anyway, when walking or hiking in the daytime, the times I am most focused on my actual steps and path are when [B]a)[/B] I am very tired and [B]b)[/B] when I am deep in thought while walking alone. Another interesting thing is when you are walking with someone, the deeper you go in a conversation (meaning not a casual exchange of small talk), the more your eyes tend to drop onto the path in front of you and you get this strange kind of auto-focus on your path and steps while you walk and talk. For me, anyway lol-- I'd love to hear from others. I'm NOT saying walking in the dark is safer than walking in the day. You can see much better in the day-- but there are a jillion more distractions. The biggest danger walking in the dark (at night or early morning) is that your headlamps etc often produce unreliable shapes and shadows. You can easily mistake depth of a hole/shallow spot or misjudge ground. A full moon is a much more reliable light for walking than headlamps and handheld lights. Once your eyes get used to moonlight, you can see very well and the shadows the moonlight makes are more like those produced by sunlight. [/QUOTE]
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