A Low Angle Love Affair
It’s 9:07 a.m. on a random midweek morning. I am alone and it hasn’t snowed in a week. The sun is shining. The corduroy is popping. I am about to ski the best run at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort: Easy Does It.
Maybe it’s antithetical to write a love letter to a low angle blue run at a resort with a reputation for steep terrain and sustained vertical drop. But Easy Does it, or EDI, as it’s called by so many adoring fans, deserves the praise—praise that is so often only reserved for its better-known siblings like Corbet’s Couloir.
Sure, EDI is just a minor link of groomed terrain off the Casper Chair, over almost before you’ve even registered you’re on it. And sure, EDI is often a blood clot of red-coated schoolers drooling over their own turns or using the run’s relatively mellow slope to teach others their ABCs (“always be carving”).
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