Colorado’s ski-area lift ticket prices have dropped back into the troposphere from stratospheric levels during the holiday rush after multiple resorts broke the $300 single-day mark.

But the agony in your wallet isn’t over yet as skiers and riders now enter the heart of the season, and single-day lift ticket prices will remain high for the foreseeable future.

With prices ranging from the cheap to the obscene, it begs the question:

What does the price of a single-day adult lift ticket buy you instead of a day of happiness on the slopes?

Let’s start with some of Colorado’s cheapest single-day tickets.

• A daily adult pass to Chapman Hill in Durango is $16, or about the price of four Coffee Sodas from Hermosa Café.

• A daily adult pass to Kendall Mountain in Silverton is $31, or about the price of a Frigidaire Mini Fridge Cooler that accommodates six cans of your favorite drink.

• A daily adult pass to Echo Mountain south of Idaho Springs ranges from between $55 to $81 depending on the day, or about the price of a full tank of gas for a Toyota Tacoma ($60) or a haircut for a medium-large dog ($85).

Medium priced ski areas — which usually have larger acreage, more lifts and amenities offer more bang-for-the-buck — can still be priceyish.

• A daily adult pass to Granby Ranch south of Granby averaged across a full week is $135, or about the price of 19, 14x18x35-inch small square mountain-hay hay bales from a local Colorado farm.

• A daily adult pass to Eldora Mountain Resort west of Boulder averaged across a full week is $159, or about the price of one, 12-pack of Rowdy Mermaid kombucha ($36), plus one, 24″ five-topping veggie pizza from Cosmos Pizza ($42) and plus one small- and one medium-sized Subaru-branded pet travel bowls ($84).

Expensively priced ski areas clearly offer the most of everything a resort has to offer, usually the most snow too, but it’ll cost you for sure.

• A daily adult pass to Crested Butte Mountain Resort is $175, or about the price of one share of Vail Resorts Inc. (MTN, $178).

• A daily adult pass to Steamboat averaged across a full week is $261, or about the price of one standard Netflix membership for 12 months ($185.88), eight boxes of Act II Butter Lovers Microwave Popcorn, with six bags per box ($35) and a bottle of Taittinger Brut Champagne ($45).

• A daily adult pass to Colorado’s most expensive ski resorts, Vail or Beaver Creek, averaged across a full week is $280, or about the price of a Waterpik Cordless Water Flosser ($70), a women’s faux fur coat from Amazon ($96), and 11, 16oz Eagle River Pilsners at The Red Lion ($114).

Being mindful, however, the majority of skiers and riders do not buy single-day tickets, they buy season pass or multi-day pass products to the tune of nearly 3:1 vs. single-day lift tickets.

Regardless of what you could spend your money on elsewhere, skiers and riders are still spending dollars on single-day lift tickets.