expert slope

But the resorts are small by American standards, with just one expert slope each.

I ski the expert slopes,' Robin said with satisfaction. '

Below the lodge are advanced and expert slopes.

Snowmaking extends to 98 percent of its trails, including several black-diamond expert slopes.

On the first day, those big bumps on the expert slopes seemed daunting to our daughter, so we stuck to intermediates.

Daredevils disappear into the black diamond expert slopes or into the back mountain expanses known as "bowls."

Budding Suzy Chaffees can try the first indoor "black run," a 440-yard expert slope with a 200-foot drop.

Stevens boasts more expert slopes than Baker, much better flow between the various parts of the mountain, and, like Snoqualmie, night skiing.

Joel also explained that Big Sky encompasses three mountains connected by lifts and that lots of good skiing lay beyond the expert slopes.

Taking that tram in order to challenge some of the most famous double-diamond expert slopes in the West has long been a rite of passage for skiers.

It reminded Grant of the thrill he'd felt the first time he'd skied down an expert slope in the snowy Wasach Mountains.

An expert slope, equivalent to the North American Black Diamond or Double Black Diamond.

The only open run down from 9,000 feet was rated intermediate, but the weather made it feel more like an expert slope, even with new snow cushioning the harshness of the terrain.

Among three new grooming vehicles is a Winch Cat, which has an anchoring mechanism allowing the machine to smooth out steeper, expert slopes without risk of sliding or rolling.

Their ages were 5 to 67, and their accidents occurred at nine resorts, where some were skiing on expert slopes while others were on intermediate and easy trails.

Though he now had the time to indulge his newly discovered passion for skiing, he was a little too inexperienced and perhaps a little too old to use the expert slopes.

Next to him was a sign that marked the green trail as the bunny slope, the blue trail as the intermediate, and the double black diamond expert slope as "The I-287."

Though Tamarack has a leg-burning 2,828 vertical feet of terrain and a generous mix of beginner, intermediate and expert slopes, the runs do not make avid skiers drool like those at, say, Jackson Hole in Wyoming.

It was at night, on Jan. 20, that a 19-year-old Trinity College student was fatally injured at Ski Sundown when she became airborne and crashed into another skier who was standing still on an expert slope.

Michael Kennedy, who was accused last year of having an affair with his family's baby sitter, was skiing on an expert slope with family members at the Aspen Mountain resort in Colorado when he hit a tree, the resort said.

Now, more than 15 years later, Mr. Martin is a sought-after snowboarding guru who jets off to Europe several times a year to tutor his exclusive clientele and sometimes hold their hands as they try to work their way down expert slopes.

I've never admitted that I was doing something for the first time, whether it was riding a horse English style and jumping fences or skiing down an expert slope, or putting a quarter down on a pool table in a biker bar.

In 2008-2009 Loon opened two more trails on South Peak including Ripsaw, an expert slope originally cut in 1996 but never finished because of delays in the permitting process, and Escape Route, a winding, secluded trail leading only to the South Peak Parking lot with no lift service.