{"id":42550,"date":"2025-06-19T03:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=42550"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:45:11","slug":"catnip-to-andys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=42550","title":{"rendered":"Catnip to Andy’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

...Reservoir<\/a> to Place…<\/a><\/p>\n

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So a mile or so up from the reservoir there was a less trafficked track signed [unlike over the border in southeastern Oregon where locals routinely remove all signage] for Little Catnip<\/p>\n

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Spring; just the road I was looking for. There was supposed to be a campground on the way in,<\/p>\n

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but it sure wasn’t evident though the\u00a0Spring,<\/a> which turns out to be around<\/p>\n

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6100′ elevation<\/a>, was plainly marked, marking the End of Designations for awhile.<\/p>\n

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Not the end of the road, tho, which continued on a bit higher, contouring the western<\/p>\n

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and southern slopes of Catnip Mountain<\/a> at maybe 6300′<\/p>\n

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to eventually reach, south and east<\/a> of Little Catnip, what they call West Catnip.<\/p>\n

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The track continued on, slowly but surely, past several other currently nameless springs<\/p>\n

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which certainly all had identities back in the days of the Mighty IXL<\/a>…not now though the high<\/p>\n

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country’s altitude was clearly more verdant [flowers too] than down along<\/p>\n

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the Smoke Creek from whence we’d come. Finally after Murdoch Spring [who dat?],<\/p>\n

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the last landmark before it dropped to Andy’s Place<\/a> on Fish Creek which, being relatively lower<\/p>\n

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and closer to 8A seems to be a popular tourist destination although overall the remains remain<\/p>\n

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relatively undisturbed, I came down off the mountain. Very little seems to be known about Andy<\/p>\n

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and what went on down there but whatever it was it’s all weathering away in the winds<\/p>\n

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of the sagebrush ocean, now providing a happy home for woodrats…and others.<\/p>\n

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Finally, at 8A, signage <\/a>again<\/p>\n

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Blowout Mountain…<\/a>[I think] across the way<\/p>\n

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and, although well into the afternoon, more to come.<\/p>\n

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…Reservoir to Place… So a mile or so up from the reservoir there was a less trafficked track signed [unlike over the border in southeastern Oregon where locals routinely remove all signage] for Little Catnip Spring; just the road I was looking for. There was supposed to be a campground on the way in, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42550"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42611,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42550\/revisions\/42611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}