I would not attempt it unless it was absolutely necessary.

I have gotten turned around in the woods on my my way to my deer stand on my brothers farm...an area I have hunted and logged for years and know like the back of my hand.

Even with a light, you might not fall in a hole, but you cannot get the big picture to navigate. Although it's rarely totally dark, even in the bottomlands, things look different at night, with or without a light.