I've hunted around and in some fresh cutover this year and in the past and what I've done as far as getting across it is go in there the afternoon or two before and plan out a route you want to take that is the quietest, looking for "benchmarks" like fallen tree tops or a lone tree etc to "take a left, walk to the side of" and then get there the morning of in the pitch black dark say an hour or so before first light depending on how long it will take you to tip toe across the cutover and let your eyes adjust well. If I want to see how to get around a tree top etc I would point my light at the ground and cover it with my hand and quickly bump the light to give me a quick shot of what I was stepping over. Use the light as little and as covered as possible, I feel like being in there that early before anything wakes up you can get away with a few faint shots of light pointed at the ground then as I get closer across it then I just have to rely solely on my eyes being adjusted and hopefully a semi bright moon at that point.
I don't ever use a light in the mornings but sometimes it can be tough slipping across cutover with limbs and such all over the place but being in there early is the key to cutover.