Have checked off bears, now what?

Ok, so one of my biggest excuses for not making it out to the trails this year has been bears and mountain lions. Realistically, I really ought to be hiking with someone, too, but lots of folks go hiking alone without being eaten. But nonetheless, I was not out hiking before this cause I was afraid of the bears. Now that I have survived seeing a huge bear while hiking alone, I can check that adventure off my list and go on to a new one. The list so far:

Bears
Mountain Lions
Hiking 14ers
Horseback riding
Climbing
Skiing
Biking
Driving
Swimming


Yes, swimming is last. I may never bother with that one, really, cause I hate panic attacks, and don't really need to swim in Colorado. Mountain lions are dangerous enough for someone my size to be dealing with alone that I consider that one optional, and up to the Universe to make happen. The rest require that I improve my fitness, and have the right time and situations, and for many of them enough money. Skiing will have to wait till there is enough snow, and climbing till I have someone who can teach me, and till I have the money for gear, for both really. Riding is not completely checked off yet, cause I still am lousy at trotting, and can't saddle my own horse yet, but I don't have a horse around that I could practice with. Driving takes a lot of money up front, so that will have to wait. I plan to get a bike in a month or less, but not till I start getting regular paychecks again from my new job. So hiking it is. Short hikes, leading up to longer hikes, and hopefully coinciding with availability of companions to hike with. I dread doing another 14er if I am as badly out of shape as I was for Pike's Peak, cause that was embarrassing. I hope if I am in better shape my high-altitude 'asthma' will go away, so I can not feel like such a wimp at the top of the next one. And really I need to do Pike's again before I would really check that one off. Yes, I know that mountain fairly well now, but I still have a few hundred feet left to go at the top. I suppose I should leave off the Mesa Trail and start doing the ones that go up instead, since I know I can walk 20 miles comfortably without much of an incline at 5000-7000.' Hmmm.