The bottom terminal of Chair 11 also has been extended, creating more beginner terrain and allowing for easier access to lifts.

The only route up is on the Quicksilver quad chair, which traverses the gentlest of beginner terrain.

Nor were there any lines longer than a minute two days earlier, Christmas Day, at Buttermilk, home to hundreds of acres of beginner terrain.

At Sunday River, snow-making starts on beginner terrain and then moves to advanced slopes.

A mid station was available for those using the lower mountain's beginner terrain.

In the mid 1990s, a novice trail was blasted just above the dormitories, providing the first top to bottom beginner terrain at the ski area.

In 2002, the resort's image was softened with the 733-acre expansion into Prospect Bowl, which added a dose of intermediate and beginner terrain.

The Little Beaver Lift (a triple chair) serves primarily beginner terrain.

Daisy is a beginner's triple lift that offers access to beginner terrain directly in the middle of the ski area.

There's also plenty of beginner terrain, as well as some entertaining advanced runs and challenging off-piste stretches for experts.