Kelly Canyon Ski Resort, Ririe, ID (Feb. 15, 2016)
Kelly Canyon Ski Resort, OK maybe resort is a little bit of an exaggeration... Its a 4 lift hill and 2 of the lifts were broken, but its close to home and relatively cheap. The two big draws to this location are one: proximity to town. Its like a 30 minute drive from Idaho Falls. And two: night skiing. They light the whole hill up at night and you can cruise the slopes until 9pm if you like.
So, I'm pretty much a newbie to downhill ski's. Don't laugh to hard if I look terrible in the video, its like the 3rd or 4th time I've ever been downhill skiing with a multi year gap between tries. I love teli-skiing (free the heel and the soul will follow!) but my kids are into downhill skiing and I like a new challenge so here I am giving it a go! I'll tell you what though, it's completely backwards! On teli-ski's you drive your downhill ski forward into a turn. On downhill ski's your uphill ski ends up forward on your turns. My brain did not want to accept this concept for the first couple of runs and face planting ensued.
On the note of video's... I have discovered that uploading a video to the blog is a pain! I am not particularly computer savvy so that may have something to do with it but the only way that I seem to be able to get the video link to actually play is if I download it to YouTube first then attach the YouTube link. Initially I had attached several different small video's to this post but I couldn't get any of them to play so I consolidated everything into one and made the YouTube video above.
Porter and Tyler joined me for the day. Both of them have done quite a bit more downhill skiing then me so naturally their suggestion is to go down the iciest steepest hill for our first run of day. Gotta love brothers... Needless to say they laughed and I crashed over and over and over.
I, however, was not the only one, as the video above is proof that both Porter and Tyler ate it! That they were bored with my slow decent and decided to try spinning circles all the way down the hill is besides the point. The circle spinning resulted in the only crashes I witnessed the two of them make. Now, in all fairness I suppose I must point out a small detail... Porter was down from his home visiting and against my recommendation he didn't bring his own ski's. Well, as it turns out the only pair of ski's that were available for use were an old pair of women's rentals that we picked up at a thrift store and a pair of size 12 boots (Porter is like a size 8). So, Tyler and I were making jabs at his way out of proportion feet all day! He rolled with it and skied pretty decently even with the handicap.
The local area had a warming spell for the week and it was a balmy 37°F for most of the day. Consequently, my three layer mountaineering outfit was a little toasty and I had to strip some layers off after two or three runs. This may have been exasperated by the excessive quantity of crashing...
Nothing like junk food to make it a successful day. If you haven't noticed from my other posts food is kind of a big deal to me. I truly enjoy getting some delicious grub before after or during outdoor adventures! This pit stop came just in time too, I had worked a night shift before meeting my brothers to go skiing so at this point in the day I think I had been awake for something like 30 hours and my energy level was waning just a little. Normally, concession food is such a rip off and you end up hungry afterwards because the portions suck but I actually thought this was a pretty decent deal. It was something like $6 for a chili dog combo.
So, we spent a good chunk of the day looking for jumps that Porter could talk Tyler into hitting. Porter skied up to me at one point and said, "I just like watching him crash, he can't help but try every jump. He's like a bug with a bug zapper, if we ski past a jump he will try to jump it!" and that was pretty much true. At one point we had cut over to the halfpipe on the hill and Tyler was in jumping heaven! Normally, Porter and I would have enjoyed watching some epic crashes but Tyler brought his A game and stayed upright for most of the day.
Porter, loves to push the limits. I think he was a little disappointed with the tiny jump in the video. I'll totally make fun of how weak it was but really inside I was thinking to myself, I totally would have face planted!
To make up for the "tiny" jump on the ski hill Porter decided to try one last jump. We found this neat spot with about a 7 foot drop into powder. Maybe its a little shy of Warren Miller status but we had a great time.
Thanks to Porter and Tyler I had always enjoy getting out with you guys! Skiing, junk food, being outside with family, doesn't get much better!
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| Porter and Tyler on top of the hill. |
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| Normally I'm bootin' up the hill or skinning up but today it was nice to ride the lift! |
I, however, was not the only one, as the video above is proof that both Porter and Tyler ate it! That they were bored with my slow decent and decided to try spinning circles all the way down the hill is besides the point. The circle spinning resulted in the only crashes I witnessed the two of them make. Now, in all fairness I suppose I must point out a small detail... Porter was down from his home visiting and against my recommendation he didn't bring his own ski's. Well, as it turns out the only pair of ski's that were available for use were an old pair of women's rentals that we picked up at a thrift store and a pair of size 12 boots (Porter is like a size 8). So, Tyler and I were making jabs at his way out of proportion feet all day! He rolled with it and skied pretty decently even with the handicap.
The local area had a warming spell for the week and it was a balmy 37°F for most of the day. Consequently, my three layer mountaineering outfit was a little toasty and I had to strip some layers off after two or three runs. This may have been exasperated by the excessive quantity of crashing...
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| A little snack before we hit the slopes again. |
So, we spent a good chunk of the day looking for jumps that Porter could talk Tyler into hitting. Porter skied up to me at one point and said, "I just like watching him crash, he can't help but try every jump. He's like a bug with a bug zapper, if we ski past a jump he will try to jump it!" and that was pretty much true. At one point we had cut over to the halfpipe on the hill and Tyler was in jumping heaven! Normally, Porter and I would have enjoyed watching some epic crashes but Tyler brought his A game and stayed upright for most of the day.
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| Porter doing some Warren Miller jumps! |
To make up for the "tiny" jump on the ski hill Porter decided to try one last jump. We found this neat spot with about a 7 foot drop into powder. Maybe its a little shy of Warren Miller status but we had a great time.
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| Me, Porter, and Tyler after a great day hanging out and skiing. |
Thanks to Porter and Tyler I had always enjoy getting out with you guys! Skiing, junk food, being outside with family, doesn't get much better!
-Adventure on!
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