I am going to spring on an LED head lamp before winter sets in. Haven't seen anything I can say with certainty I will get, but I'm noticing that a lot of them have an LED set of lamps and also an incandescant lamp so one can 'throw' a beam of light out there, much brighter.

REI stores have a wide assortment of LED headlamps. Most of the headlamps I've seen at REI come with three batteries, which I'd rather not buy. Batteries are sold economically in boxes of four or larger, and I'm not a fan of buying a box of four and having to leave one little battery hanging out somewhere. Besides if you have an even number of batteries in your lamp or radio, you can do this little trick where you reverse half of them against each other. This means that you can leave fresh batteries in the device but it can't be accidentally turned on in shipment or travel. You can't do this with an odd assortment of batteries.

The sports columnist of the Anchorage Daily News just wrote about LED lights here