SPIRITED WALKERS
2011 Spirited Walkers
New Meeting date for 2011 Spirited Walkers:
Monday, January 17, 2011
Downtown Athletic Club
7-8 pm, 4th floor
Download our Spirited Walkers Brochure Here
(You do not need to be a member of the DAC to
attend the meeting or to join the Spirited Walkers)
The Spirited Walkers of Eugene
Train to walk the Eugene and Portland Marathons with The Spirited Walkers of Eugene. We begin training in February each year and train steadily to be able to enjoy walking the marathon in the early fall.
"The Spirited Walker" name is registered by Carolyn Scott Kortge, author of The Spirited Walker: Fitness Walking for Clarity, Balance, and Spiritual Connection (HarperSanFrancisco 1998). It is used in this marathon training program with her permission.
"Walking the marathon wasn't
anything I had planned,
but somehow I knew
the time had come..."
-recent participant
Walk the Marathon with Friends!
Group members receive training mileage logs for Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels.
The cost is $150 for the 8 month training. To register, please call Kay Porter at 541-342-6875 or email her at kayporter1@comcast.net. Bring friends and come join us for fun and good walking training... even if you don't plan a Marathon yet!
Particulars
Train to walk the marathon with the Spirited Walkers of Eugene. We begin training in February each year and train steadily to be able to enjoy walking the marathon.
Led and coached by Kay Porter, Ph.D., a long time runner, walker and Sport Psychology Consultant, the group meets every month for an informational meeting and meets each weekend for the week's long walk together.
Group members receive monthly training mileage logs for Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels. Contact Kay for more information or to sign up.
Read our magazine article about Spirited Walkers of Eugene.
See the recent interview on KVAL TV in Eugene, Oregon.
Read a newspaper article from The Eugene Register Guard.
VISION QUEST ROGUE RIVER
Rogue River
A five day vision quest led by Dr. Kay Porter on the scenic and wild Rogue River in Southwestern Oregon.
You are invited to a mini-vision quest on the beautiful wild Rogue River in the Southwestern Oregon Siskiyou Mountains. A forty-mile trail runs along the Rogue from Galice to Illahe, a few miles from the mouth of the Rogue where it flows into the Pacific Ocean at Gold Beach. We will drive to the middle of the trail, on back roads, entering into the Rogue canyon near Marial Lodge, a lodge catering to rafters and an occasional backpacker. The area near Marial also includes the old Billings Ranch, the first outpost built by the Billings family over 100 years ago. The Billings Ranch is now a BLM National Historic area. We enter the trail 2 miles downriver of the old Billings place.
We hike along the Rogue through forests of madrone, oak, pine and other native Oregon plants and trees, and rugged Mule Creek Canyon, reaching our base camp at Blossom Bar Creek, only 2 miles in from the trailhead. As we hike, we will enjoy the lush spring flowers along the trail: cat's ear, wild iris, wild lilac, purple lilies and more. Part of your experience will be to build in you, an acute awareness of nature, sharpening your senses and your ability to see, feel and hear the wilderness. We will practice these skills on our hike into Blossom Bar.
At base camp we will invoke the seven directions, have a purification ceremony and pray for our visions. Questers then go to find their vision quest spot where they will spend the next 3 days and nights, calling for their vision. These three days and nights will be fasting with water and soloing. Soloing is spending time alone in the wilderness area in the quester's medicine circle, meditating, journaling and communing with nature and Great Spirit.
The fourth morning questers will return to base camp to convene together, receiving a nutritious and nurturing breakfast and to discuss their experiences. Later that day, we will hike out to the trailhead and return to Eugene.
The Rogue River is a wild river of America and was an honored river by native Americans in the region. It is a powerful river and power place. It is a beautiful, dark green, fast running river, with many rapids and eddies, and has many lovely creeks intersecting its banks. The trail that follows its edge is well maintained but rugged. It was originally built as access to mining claims over 100 years ago, and follows older native American trails. The area has much wild life, including black bears, deer, squirrels, ring tailed cats, snakes and many species of birds. It's Fall salmon and steelhead fishing is legendary. It supported a number of mines throughout its history and many traces are still evident along the trail and creeks in the area.
It is a place of historic significance and wild beauty and I invite you to enjoy this natural splendor while you search for answers to the important questions of your life.
Only groups of a maximum of six people can camp in the wilderness area, so if you are interested, please send your deposit of $350 to me asap to reserve your space. Let me know if you want to join us, and I'll send you a release. Total cost for the Vision Quest is $500.
Email me at: kayporter1@comcast.net, call (541) 342-6875, or send me your deposit at PO Box 5584, Eugene, OR 97405. This will be a wonderful trip. Hope you can join us on Memorial Day weekend 2011! Summer in the Oregon wilderness is exquisite, and we'll have a great time!