Jackson Hole: piste guide - Telegraph Corbet's aside, most of the steepest slopes are more easily reached from the slightly lower quad chairs. From the Sublette chair, you have direct access to the short but seriously steep Alta chutes, and to the less severe Laramie Bowl beside them. Or you can track over to Tensleep Bowl - pausing to inspect Corbet's from below - and on to the less extreme (and less chute-like) Expert Chutes, and the single-black Cirque and Headwall areas. Casper Bowl often has good powder, and the Crags is an area of bowls, chutes and glades reached by hiking - both are accessed through gates. Thunder chair serves steep, narrow, fairly shady chutes. Again, the lower part of the mountain here offers lightly wooded single diamond slopes. The gondola serves some good, underused expert terrain, particularly to skier's left of the lift, including the glades of Woolsey and Moran Woods. Even Apres Vous has serious, usually quiet, single blacks in Saratoga Bowl. The gates into the backcountry access over 3,000 acres of amazing terrain, which should be explored only with guidance. You can stay out overnight at a backcountry yurt (tent). There are some helicopter operations. For intermediates Exciting for some They have tried hard to improve the intermediate terrain, with fast lifts and much more grooming than in the old days. There are good cruising runs on the front face of Apres Vous, and top-to-bottom quite gentle blues from the gondola. But they don't add up to a great deal of mileage, and you shouldn't consider Jackson unless you want to tackle ungroomed runs. It's then important to get guidance on steepness and snow conditions. A good number of blues are identified on the trail map as more difficult, and many of these are less frequently groomed too - these are the places to get the hang of powder. The steepest single blacks are steep, intimidating when mogulled and fearsome when hard. The daily grooming map is worth consulting, but falling snow will mean moguls form. For beginners Fine, up to a point There are good broad, gentle beginner slopes and a lift pass covering the two chairs that serve them. The progression to the blue Werner run off the Apres Vous chair is gradual enough and the mid-mountain blues on the Casper Bowl chair are reached via the chairs from the beginner area. But few other runs will help build confidence. For boarders Steep and deep thrills Jackson Hole is a cult resort for expert snowboarders, as for skiers. It's not bad for novices either. But intermediates not wishing to venture off the groomed runs will find the resort limited. Six terrain parks and a super-pipe provide the freestyle thrills. There are some good snowboard shops, including the Hole-in-the-Wall at Teton Village. For cross-country Plenty of scenic choices The Saddlehorn Activity Center at Teton has 17km of trails and organizes trips into the National Parks. And there are lots of groomed trails in the surrounding National Parks.