A week at the Butte

This weeks work adventure took me to Elephant Butte. First time at the reservoir. It is quite the site, though I hear next weekend is the time to be out on the lake. It's the start of a Prey base study so we spent our days setting and picking fish out of gills nets. What did we catch? Catfish, carp (too many to count), small mouth buffalo (those things are freaking huge!), white bass and few other species.
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The biggest smallmouth buffalo we caught was about 33 inches! I bet he weighed 20 lbs!
Pretty uneventful week except for the evening downpours! Isn't this NM? I think we got a whole years worth of moisture in 2 days. The Marmot tent held up though. My only concern was not getting BBQ'd by the lightning. Talk about intense.
Unfortunately, there wasn't any time to ride the bike so my fitness is getting worse by the day! Ugh!! Leadville 100 is not to far away.
Back home now. Time to unpack, and get ready for the next trip. W. Virginia here I come! Heard there is great riding in WV, but I have a feeling the course I am enrolled in isn't going to allow time for exploring the trails.