Skiing stateside is getting more popular. But with higher prices, can you make the sums add up?

The town of Vail is home to the legendary Back Bowls and Blue Sky Basin
Twenty-eight distinctive high-altitude ski resorts; 58 4,000-metre peaks and a western culture that embodies “cowboy core”. What’s not to love about skiing in Colorado?
It might be fair to say that Colorado’s big-name resorts are best enjoyed by high earners, those who can afford to ski in European resorts like Zermatt, Courchevel 1850 and Verbier. But from Denver to Winter Park, Vail, Aspen Snowmass and Telluride, there are ways to manage the expense.