RE: In the dark?
I think allot of people who are only in the woods only a little every year are truly scared of the dark. I think it is something ingrained in our brain that we sould be back around a fire or in camp when it is dark, a prehistoric survival instinct maybe. Human eyes and senses do not fair as well as other animals once the sun goes down, and ones brain starts to play ticks ones self. I have gotten use to hiking in the dark, but even I am in a higher state of alertness, and sometimes get the feeling of being followed or my eyes will play tricks. For most of our existence we have not ruled the night, lions and wolves did, so I think we are born with this instinct to stay in camp during the dark hours of the day. Though some people are just plain lazy, but if thats what they enjoy about hunting camp, relaxing, more power to them, and more game for me.