11 Thrilling Things Every Active Woman Should Try to Do in Her Lifetime We made you a bucket list so you didn’t have to. Courtesy of Aspen Snowmass

In the May issue of Women's Health, we gave you 50 ideas for how to get a fresh perspective on fitness. But because you can never have enough excuses to get outside, we found 11 more items that belong on every active lady's bucket list.

1. Run a bridge. There's nothing like a run that literally lifts you off the ground. While they may seem cliché and obvious, Brooklyn Bridge and Golden Gate are two that should be on your to-run list. 

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2. Do a sun salutation on top of a mountain. Aspen Mountain in the Rockies is pretty much the most idyllic location possible for Hatha yoga (that's it in the main photo above). Classes are offered Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 10:30 a.m. from June to August (free with the purchase of a gondola foot passenger ticket).

3. Two words: trapeze school. Find them in New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and prepare to channel your inner circus performer.

4. Kayak the Maine Island Trail in Portland. The 375-mile waterway connects more than 200 islands, making it one of the best spots for kayaking on the East Coast.

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5. Bet you didn't know you could go white water rafting through the Grand Canyon (it gives you a unique perspective of this natural wonder). Charlotte, North Carolina, home to the U.S. National Whitewater Center, is another perfect rafting option for adrenaline junkies (check out its intense rodeo rafting trips).

6. Hike through the canyons, waterfalls, and sandstone bluffs at Illinois’s hidden gem, Starved Rock State Park. Located on the south bank of the Illinois River, it's a scenic wonderland less than 100 miles from Chicago.

 

 

 

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7. Take in a full moon. It's one of the best times to hike California's Mt. Shasta, a 14,179-foot-tall active volcano—or to participate in a yoga retreat at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. 

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8. Go dog sledding on a glacier with Alpine Air Alaska. The excursion comes complete with a helicopter ride onto Punch Bowl Glacier in the Chugach Mountains and a team of Huskies waiting to transport you through one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

 A photo posted by Alpine Air Alaska, Inc. (@alpineairalaska) on Jul 26, 2013 at 10:23am PDT

 

9. You don't have to go to a tropical destination to try your hand at SUP. Practice the water sport in an urban setting with Charles River Canoe & Kayak in Boston.

10. There's no better way to see the vineyard-laced Sonoma County than on horseback. Schedule a sunset ride to make the experience even more memorable.

11. Get up close and personal with various cave formations on a two- or four-hour wild cave tour. What makes a cave "wild"? No handrails, paved paths, or lights—so there will defintiely be crawling and climbing involved. Georgia Girl Guides offer tours in Cloudland Canyon State Park and Pigeon Mountain Wildlife Management Area.

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This Woman Drank Her Own Breast Milk to Survive in the Wilderness Was it actually safe? A doctor weighs in.
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The liquid gold that is breast milk has made headlines for its ability to fuel body builders' muscle gains and new moms' weight loss—you know, in addition to feeding babies. Now, it's getting credit for helping one woman survive while stranded in a forest for more than 24 hours, according to Radio New Zealand News.
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Susan O'Brien of New Zealand was running a 20K trail race when she lost track of where she was and got too exhausted to find her way back. That's when she dug a hole to rest in until she could be rescued, according to Radio New Zealand. The 29-year-old mom of two, who is currently breastfeeding her 8-month-old, also used another survival tactic: She drank her own breast milk. Resourceful!
Luckily, late the next morning, O'Brien was found and reunited with her family. Check out the sweet reunion between Susan and her family:
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But back to the whole drinking-her-breast-milk-to-survive thing—is that actually okay to do? "It's absolutely safe," says ob-gyn Mary Jane Minkin, M.D., clinical professor at the Yale School of Medicine. Since it's coming from your own body, she says, the bacteria that's in the fluid is completely okay for you to consume.
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And drinking the magic mommy nectar can actually be helpful if you're in a dire situation like Susan, says Minkin. Though sipping fluids from your body isn't going to help you stay hydrated for very long, breast milk contains calories to help keep your energy levels up, she says. "This makes it a good short term fix, but in the long run she would get dehydrated, and her body would stop producing breast milk," says Minkin. "She's very creative—I'm glad she thought of this."

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Put your food down for a sec, especially if there's dairy in it. Really, we're warning you.
A woman in Maryland was arrested last week for putting dead skin shavings from her feet into her family’s milk. That’s right—she put skin from her feet into their milk…and they drank it.
Sarah P. Schrock was arrested and charged with poisoning and contaminating food, three counts of assault, and failure to comply with a peace order, according to Southern Maryland Newspapers Online. She was caught when her family members began choking and coughed up what looked like dead skin.
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Family member Jessica Whitney Hurry said in court papers that Sarah, who has diabetes, has “trays in her room with the same kind of dead skin shavings that had come off of her feet.” For the record, Sarah denies having anything to do with it.
Sarah isn’t the first person to (allegedly) put something gross in other people’s food. A woman was caught on video last year (photo below), squirting her breast milk into her office’s milk carton, a college student in Michigan was busted in 2012 for putting bleach in her roommate’s iced tea, and a slew of waiters have admitted to spitting in people’s food. But this is the first we’ve heard of foot shavings.

While there’s nothing appetizing about ingesting someone’s dead foot skin, can you actually get sick from it? Unfortunately yes, experts say, and the largest problem is bacterial.


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“There could be anything on your feet—literally, anything,” says Dana Cohen, M.D., an internist practicing in New York City. If any kind of bacteria is on someone’s foot and then gets into your food, it can make its way into your stomach and make you sick.
(Would you want peeling skin from someone's foot in your next glass of milk?)
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Cohen says fecal matter is one of the biggest concerns, especially in warmer weather when a person may be walking outside barefoot and pick up traces of dog poop on their feet. That could then cause diarrhea, vomiting, or worse, she says.
Certified nutritionist and board-certified family physician James Pinckney II, M.D., says people would particularly need to be wary of MRSA, a largely drug-resistant bacteria that can cause a host of infections. Pinckney says it’s also possible that a person could develop an infection from pseudomonas, a bacteria that’s common among people with diabetes like Sarah. “It can cause a gastrointestinal infection, but it’s pretty rare,” he says.
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While all of this is possible, Pinckney says it’s more likely that nothing would happen. “Dust is comprised of 99 percent dead skin cells,” he points out. “It’s probably fairly harmless.”
Moral of the story? Yes, it’s completely and utterly disgusting, but you’re probably going to be okay if someone’s dead skin makes its way into your food.