The Storm provides significant light coverage even on the low setting. There’s not much worse than pulling your light out of your pack in the evening to find a dead battery. This will keep the light from killing battery as you carry it, and I credit this feature for making the batteries last so long.
Even better, I can “lock” the headlamp by simply holding down the power button until a small blue light flashes. Black Diamond headlamps come with a battery meter - a small light that reads green, orange, or red to display the battery power remaining. I’ve owned this light for over a year and have carried it from Denali National Park to Pisgah National Forest and have yet to replace the batteries. The advertised battery life is 40 hours at full power and 120 at low power. I typically use it on lower power settings, especially for reading or cooking in the dark - the Storm still excels as a general-use camping light. It’s not the lightest out there, but it performs above its weight. That’s light, especially given that at full power it can cast light about 80 meters out. Including the four AAA batteries, the Storm weighs in at just under 4 ounces. My headlamp was the Black Diamond Storm, a new model released in 2017. I read by the light of my headlamp for about an hour before going back to the tent to sleep. I retrieved my book and headlamp from the tent and propped myself up against an old spruce tree beside the Savage River in Denali National Park. Even as the others went to sleep, I was not ready for bed. Even when it fell below the horizon, the sky was still not entirely dark but in the boreal forest, where we had set up our camp, it was. The Alaskan summer sun set late in the day over the mountains.
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