This being the year of our 30th Wedding Anniversary, we decided to attempt some bucket list activities.  We survived a snowmobile ride in Yellowstone National Park last month, and this month it was a skiing excursion.  Not to Yellowstone, but to a much closer location to home at Kelly Canyon Ski Area.  Kelly Canyon is a local Idaho Falls family ski area.  It is located about 25 miles outside of Idaho Falls and about the same distance from our home.  It has been there a long time, in fact our next door neighbor worked there as a teenager and he is my age... almost 😁 We have not had a huge snow year this winter.... so far, but we did receive 5-10 inches of snow just 2 or 3 days prior to deciding to head out to Kelly Canyon.  That turned out to be a good plan, the snow was outstanding!  Kelly Canyon is situated at about 6,500 ft elevation, which is about 1,000 ft higher than our homesite.  During the winter it is not uncommon to have snow cloud bott...