Everyone has some very good advice, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I've gotten some good tips that I am putting to use, I have an LED torch w/strobe, but, I think some people are imagining this as a little more extreme than it really is, It's no cake walk, but if everyone would google the colorado trail they will see that there are people who devote their life to this trail. I'm sure that there are a number of people on the trail right now, Hell, I would'nt surprize me to run into one of you guys on the trail because you was reading along and decided to come out and check it out.