The 9 Best Ski Resorts for Advanced Skiers in North America

These days, the traditional skier skill categories—beginner, intermediate, advanced, and expert—can feel highly malleable. What, really, is an intermediate skier? How about an advanced skier? Do you need to be able to ski double black diamonds to qualify as an expert, or is the oft-coveted title of “professional” required for entrance into this exclusive club?What’s less debatable, though, is a simple fact: skiing, sometimes, is scary or, at the very least, challeng