Traveller's guide to ski season 2012/13

At this time of year, when the wintersport season starts on these pages, some distant resorts can usually be relied upon to herald the event with a light dusting of snow on high ground. Several in the western states of the US have obliged, one of them with a display well beyond the merely picturesque. Photographs of the access road to the remarkable Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort (not