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teague-a-licious
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 Posted: Nov 10, 2008 11:04 am Post subject: boating in... New Mexico? |
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Hey! I've been skiing and boating all my life, but I'm just now getting serious about it. Unfortunately, I live in New Mexico, and there doesn't seem to be much of a community down here for wakeboarding. I was wondering if anyone knows anything about wakeboarding in new Mexico. Is there hope, or am I going to have to move to someplace a little wetter?
also, how often do you get days of good water? I've never boated outside New Mexico, and it tends to be windy, so glassy water is a rare thing and wildly celebrated.
Reading this back, it really sounds like I just live in the wrong place...
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xsvfreako
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| Posted: Nov 10, 2008 11:56 am Post subject: |
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yea kinda move to the est coast or a big lake
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Okie Boarder
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| Posted: Nov 10, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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Here's a link to the Corps website showing lakes in NM. This might help, depending on where you live...
http://corpslakes.usace.army.mil/visitors/states.cfm?state=NM
I've got a colleague that lives out there. He isn't much into wakeboarding...more of a snowboarder. He lives in Albuquerque. I can ask him what he may know about good lakes to go to if you'd like.
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sandm
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| Posted: Nov 10, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| mom lived in abq for years. used to talk about going to elephant butte lake a lot, but it sounded like it was a big party, not a wakeboard lake... |
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teague-a-licious
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| Posted: Nov 10, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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thanks!
sounds like I'm a little out of luck. Ah well, I'll make do with what we've got out here.
thanks though!
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| Posted: Nov 11, 2008 7:45 am Post subject: |
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Here's some more information from my colleague (He's in Albuquerque, by the way)...
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Oh yea, there are quite a few popular places for skiing and wakeboarding.
Elephant Butte is probably the most popular for watersports including windsurfing and kite boarding as there's usually at least a decent breeze and many times downright windy. It's south on I-25 near Truth or Consequences - about 2 1/2 hours.
Bluewater State Park is not too far from here and usually has glassy, clear water, but is usually quite a bit cooler. It's west of here about an hour on I-40 just past Grants, off the interstate at Prewitt on Hwy 412. It's about another half hour or so from there on a paved, decent two-lane road.
Those are the two most popular lakes in NM for watersports. There are quite a few others that are not quite so large, but are still used quite a bit - although mostly for fishing and camping:
Twin Lakes, Navajo Reservoir, Cochiti Reservoir, and many people here in NM even drive out west to Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam.
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So it looks like you have some halfway decent options. Not the perfect situation, but it's not like you have zero choices either.
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teague-a-licious
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| Posted: Nov 11, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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thanks! I'll look those up!
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ViperREDX80
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| Navajo Lake out side of Farmington is a great lake in NM. |
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5280Hawk
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Navajo is nicknamed baby lake powell, Its Nice, If i was abq i would make that a weekend trip, though.
It probably a 3 hour drive.
I plan i going there this summer, My folks live in Southern Colo. |
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