61.   Critics say that ski areas and equipment manufacturers have been reluctant to promote helmets.

62.   Despite some long runouts, this ski area has tremendous terrain and is on the verge of improving what it has.

63.   --Does it seem to you that many ski areas are morphing into amusement parks?

64.   Despite heavy development around the ski area, there are vast unspoiled spaces to explore on foot, snowshoe, cross-country ski, snowmobile and horseback.

65.   Drive around the mountain to the main ski area in the morning.

66.   Despite the warm weather that hit Arizona last week, some slopes at both Sunrise and Arizona Snowbowl ski areas remain open.

67.   Drive back to the ski area in the morning.

68.   During this period, called Spring Jam, the ski area will also offer live music and D.J.s at outdoor apres-ski parties.

69.   Elsewhere in the West, environmentalists are fighting construction of a new ski area, Pelican Butte, in southern Oregon, and the expansion of Snowbasin in Utah.

70.   Eager to be athletically correct, most Colorado ski areas have purged the word ski from their names.