Steens Mountain Running Camp
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (September 2007) |
| This article may not meet the general notability guideline or one of the following specific guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for redirection, merge or ultimately deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion. This article has been tagged since September 2007. |
Steens Mountain Running Camp is a nationally known running camp[1]. Founded in 1975[2], It was designed to give campers aged 13-19 a realistic wilderness running and camping experience. Located in Southeastern Oregon, 60 miles southwest of Burns, on a mountain range that rises to 9,773 feet above sea level, Steens Mountain Running Camp provides high school runners from around the country with the opportunity to experience high altitude conditioning. In addition to cardiovascular and muscular training, participants experience instruction in all areas of distance training and racing, with emphasis on performance and improvement through motivational and self-image enhancement strategies. To enhance personal growth, participants must be willing to adapt to lack of urban conveniences not found in the Steens Mountain wilderness area. Steens Mountain Running Camp offers a number of distance running-related activities over a five day period including a 30 mile hike/run, a cross canyon race, an uphill 5 kilometer race, and many other distance runs, based on participants ability level. Camp counselors consist of adchieved college and professional runners from around the United States.[3] In January of 2003, the Bureau of Land Management approved the continuation of the commercial Steens Mountain Running Camp within the Steens Mountains wilderness area[4].
