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@moth
+1, particularly to good lights.
Sometimes they seem to have events at the house on the West side, so you ocasionally encounter cars between there and the Richmond gate (and half-barriers across the road to keep the cars to that section). One shone full beam at me once. There was a slight hump in the road between us, so the ground around me was in shadow and i could see nothing but his lights. Luckily managed to slow down quite a lot before colliding with one of the little posts along the edge of the road.
Other than that i haven't found it scary at all, but then i've always liked the dark.
Oh, and watch out for the skiers. There is a regular who is usually well illuminated, but i have narrowly missed running into a couple of others.