This almost isn't worth sharing since it is so simple, but if a few people find it handy it was worth posting.
I'm in a constant state of misplacing my headlamp during the evening and early morning hours. When I sleep with it on, it often comes off and winds up under me somewhere. When I put it on the shelf in my WB XLC, I sometimes lose track of it among the various other things stuffed in the shelf. I don't currently use a peak bag or ridgeline organizer, so long story short, I'm not consistent with how I stow my light at night.
I occasionally do a simple larks head of the headlamp head band around my ridgeline at night. That makes it easy to find the flashlight, and it lets me use my tyvek throw bag over it to diffuse the light and make it more pleasing to the eye, but it always takes a few seconds of fumbling to remove the headlamp from the ridgeline when nature calls.
To simplify my illumination needs during the wee hours and to minimize fussing during bedtime, I've taken to permanently attaching a small light to my ridgeline that is dedicated entirely to being my "hammock light". It gets stowed in my hammock and it is always right where I left it when I set back up. This is what it looks like when it isn't living in my hammock:
Ridgeline Flashlight.jpg
Dutch sells the ridge light here for a very reasonable price. I just removed the o-ring(s) and substituted a small zing-it continuous loop, which I prusik knot over my ridgeline so I can slide the light where I want it and it stays put. Total weight: 7g.
The small stock o-ring attached to the mini flashlight is so light and flimsy that the first time you grab the light a little too hard it will deform open into a sharp U-shape, it might fall away from the light, and carve its way into your hammock before you find it. I had a close call like that, so am speaking from experience. The o-rings also don't keep the light in place on the ridgeline. The minor mod of removal of the rings and a prusik loop has given this light a permanent home on my ridgeline. It's always exactly where I can find it. Having a secondary small backup light isn't a bad idea either.
TL;DR: Now I have a flashlight to help me find my flashlight...
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