Black Diamond Lantern – A Year Later
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by David in Blog, Gear, Trekking
Last year I wrote a gear review about how well the Black Diamond Apollo Lantern worked for our trekking groups. One year later, and I still like these well designed little lanterns so much I just ordered some more.
One of the ways our groups like using the lanterns is to light our dining tent at night for hanging out and playing cards. I tried taking some photos of a recent group doing this and realized I’m not really sure how to take photos in dark tent lit by small lanterns with people moving a lot during fast paced card games! But they hopefully give you some idea of what it’s like using these lanterns at night.
In fact these Apollo lanterns are very fine crafted and nice products. There is an almost identical (chinese?) version called “Comet” from a company named “Sunree”. Besides the stands it is just the same like the Apollos. I am very fond of both of them: loading them with solar panels from SIStech (Swiss company) makes them a really nice and lightweight addition to my camping trips.