This happened when I first started bowhunting.

On one of those black moonless nights I was walking into a tree stand in some heavily wooded river botton area when I thought I was near my stand I turned on a flashlight to find it. What a mistake that was. Everything looked exactly the same. By the time I walked around in circles looking for the stand I turned the light off. By then my eyes adjusted to the light and what little night vision I had was now completely gone. Plus I had no idea what direction I was facing. I walked around for a while and decided I better wait for sun up since I had no idea where I was going. The sun can up and I was about 70 yards from my pickup. One thing I never do anymore is turn on a flash light while going to my stand in the dark.