learn to ski to beable to ski breck, begginers can already ski 75 percent of the mountain!  I think you should go to vail, before even reffering people to breck, cuz vail has sick skiing! and would very highly reccomend vail over breck for skiing on a mountain, there is so much terrain and so much more to ski at vail, and on a huge powder day, there isnt a mtn better tons of terrain, and if you are with someone who knows there way around its sick, and lines are also so much smaller than the lines at breck 95 percent of the time!  If you want a killer park with some decent out of park skiing, and want to do 50/50 both in one day i'd say go to breck, but for wanting to ski around vail is much much better