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Hey everyone! New Jersey-based goon here. I'll go on day hikes now and then, but nothing too challenging. Hoping to step outside my comfort zone, go on cooler hikes, and maybe learn to forage and fish. Here's something from yesterday.  Resources on ultralight packing would also be great. Or advice on hiking with chronic pain on your plate. Because I've had chronic pain for years, mostly around my collarbone, and I'm a little antsy about triggering a flare-up. 
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Safety Dance posted:Ooh, that's pretty! Where was that photo taken? Somewhere on the Lenape Trail in Cedar Grove. Not sure what its name is. quote:Check out the Backpacking and camping gear megathread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3817829, as well as the hiking and fishing threads: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3521471 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3933162 ! Already bookmarked! Verman posted:While I don't have any resources on ultralight stuff per say, I would suggest seeing your doctor and getting a referral to a PT/sports medicine specialist to see if there's any possible way of addressing the pain issue. Trying A B or C won't really help unless your doctor can really thoroughly examine the cause/possible treatment for whatever is plaguing you. Its possible you might have already done this but if its that big of an issue, maybe consider getting a second opinion or a referral to someone who may have some other alternatives. So the good news is that I'm already diagnosed and medicated, meaning that the pain is way more manageable now. Huge improvement over the times when it hurt to write or carry a bag on the wrong shoulder. At the same time, I've absolutely overcorrected in a way that's not doing me any favors. This: quote:I notice it the most when I'm not being active which is often because I'm at a computer all day for work. The more I move around and focus on staying loose and limber the better it is but it never completely goes away. is completely true for me, and the more I think about it, it's more inertia holding me back. And this dread of somehow overexerting myself and causing an injury, which could happen, sure, but the fear has more to do with what happened before I was medicated than anything. Some pain's going to follow me no matter what I do. That's what the ibuprofen is for.  Anyway, I think this is something I really needed to hear. Thanks.
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