There’s still time to go on an adventurous ski trip this winter! If you are new to the ski business, there are 3 mountains that will help ease you into the thrilling sport! Find out which 3 major ski resorts are considered the best for beginners. View the full article at http://accent.chubb.com/best-ski-resorts-beginners and for more destinations to travel to this winter, check out http://accent.chubb.com/travel.

1. Best Ski Resorts For Beginners
Ease into the sport at these three mountains.

2. Learning to ski can be intimidating. Your friends
may be boasting about double black diamonds,
catching big air or glade runs.
How can your family possibly catch up with skiers
who’ve had decades of practice?
Well, here’s the first lesson for absolute beginners:
It’s all about the experience. Skiing is an all-comers
sport where anyone with a lift ticket is welcome.

3. Almost all major ski resorts offer extensive
beginners’ slopes and instruction programs to ease
you into the sport.
(Plus, everyone is on equal footing as soon as the last
gondola stops running—and experts and beginners
alike meet for a cozy post ski hot toddy.)
Here are our picks for three of the best beginner
resorts across the U.S.

4. A full 25 percent of Mammoth’s trails are marked with
green circles, the universal symbol for easy slopes.
This Eastern California resort has designated slow ski
areas with plenty of gentle terrain to practice your
skills.
Mammoth Mountain, Calif.

5. Once you’re feeling steady on your skis, there are
opportunities for progressively more challenging runs.
Check out the Ski & Snowboard School for group and
private lessons. One other unique benefit of Mammoth?
Its moderate climate allows for an usually long season.
Invest in a season pass and marvel at your progress
from November to June.
Mammoth Mountain, Calif.

6. Alta is one of the oldest ski resorts in the country, and
one of only a handful that prohibits snowboarding.
Alta’s Alf Engen Ski School is known for having some
of the best ski instructors in the country on staff.
Instruction focuses on solid mastery of fundamental
skills.
Alta, Utah

7. Novices love Alta’s expansive green trails.
While most green trails begin part-way up the
mountain—therefore missing the best views—Alta’s
natural terrain means it can offer several long beginner
runs with the kind of stunning mountain vistas usually
reserved for more advanced skiers.
Alta, Utah

8. This northern Vermont resort’s wide, easy slopes and
beginner-friendly culture have given it a large
newcomers' community.
The Stowe Ski & Snowboard School is headquartered at
the picturesque Spruce Peak, with easy access to all of
the mountain’s beginner terrain.
Stowe Mountain Resort, Vt.

9. The resort offers a bunny slope, magic-carpet rides and
green-run only lifts.
Once you’re ready to attempt the slightly steeper
terrain of an intermediate blue square trail, Stowe has
some relatively moderate runs to help you transition.
Stowe Mountain Resort, Vt.