I agree with the too bright! (For my eyes, anyway.)
I use a 95 lumen LED (Fenix HL21 headlamp) and it's good for me. I also have the HP20 (230 lumen) lamp and it's too bright on high.

I have the 75 lumen headlamp and it works for me. However, if I would ever feel the need to back out for a tracking job, I'd just go back to the vehicle and retrieve a propane lantern. If I am hunting with a climbing treestand, I'll have to go back to the vehicle anyway to put the stand and all my gear away before dragging the beast out, so grabbing a lantern is no big deal. Nothing lights up the night like one of those.

Flashlights are a great tool to have in the woods. But how many guys have a backup???

I was busy tracking a doe this year and my light started to dim on me. Nothing worse then being in the woods with no light. It really gets dark out there. I should have had a backup, but didn't. I was lucky that the light didn't go out completely!

So now I carry a second light in my pack. I don't like dark. It is scarry!!!

I keep a spare set of batteries in my pack, always. I also keep one of those really small LED flashlights in my pack as a backup or supplement to the headlamp.

i track a lot of deer and elk for other folks, usually at night. i use a high intensity light with a blue lens.

For daytime tracking where the grass has red color on it, a small spray bottle of peroxide comes in handy. If the red color is blood it will fizz.

Nothing beats a good tracking dog like the wirehaired dachshund a good friend owns.

I carry two flashlights. One is a small pencil type LED and the other is a mini mag light. I also carry extra batteries because the ones that fit the mini mag also fit my GPS. I can tell you from experience, being caught out in the middle of a alder cedar bog in darkness is not only a long night but dangerous to try and walk out. With no light you risk serious ankle injury and walking in circles (again voice of experience) with no light and compass.

Something else I carry. Make several small candles out of #11 cap tins. If you ever get caught out, light that candle. It gives a little light and makes fire starting in damp environments a whole lot easier. Also I vacuum seal three books of matches I carry. Vacuum sealed they are safe to carry, no oxygen no fire, and are fresh as the day you sealed them.

This is the one that I carry.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Coleman-20...light/13848694
For $25 - its a great light. I have another light I use to go in and out from my stand when it is too dark. That one has some sort of opaque comver over the led making it look like one big bulb. But I like it because it isn't too bright and has red and blue snap on covers. I use the red cover and it gives me just enough light.
But this post is getting to invilved for MLing so I am going to start a new one as a sticky.

I've got a backup, a backup for my backup, batteries and a flasher...

Spent part of a night trying to find a deer a buddy left in the woods...He had found the deer but came out without marking...

I carry 2 headlights, a flashlight, a flasher and batteries for all...The second headlight is to put on if the first either breaks or I need to change batteries...I've also left it on a limb to help me find my way out when tracking a deer...The flasher is used to clip on a limb over a deer so I can find it when I come back with help or the 4-wheeler....I've also clipped it to my tree stand to help when looking for a blood trail to help me find where the deer was last seen or was at the shot...

I also carry 2 compasses and 3 knives....

Gonna start carrying my Glock 23 this year...I'm hearing too many stories about 2 legged creatures in the woods around here...

I still use the stylus with a green light while walking in to my stand. the single led doesnt seem to alert much game. I use a UK flashlight as my backup. Xenon bulb in the UK and super bright. I bought my wife a Fenix 200 lumen tactical flashlight; its blinding to say the least. I always have 2 flashlights in my fanny pack while hunting.

I also carry at least 2 small LED lights. One is a 5 led that runs in 3 AAA's and the other is one of those little ones that clips on your hat bill and uses 2 of the 2032 coin type batteries. Both of them were cheap too, yet I've never had any issues with them like I have with other cheap lights. I also have an energizer led headlamp that uses the coin batteries. They take up hardly any room in my hip pack and run for several hours on one set of batteries. The coleman light sounds nice. I may have to check them out as well.