71.   Even more southerly ski areas are hoping for a healthy stretch of spring skiing.

72.   Even so, the look of winter that many skiers prefer is not available in most ski areas this week.

73.   Every Monday I get calls to get in touch with the Globe Spotlight investigative team to do an expose about ski areas falsifying conditions.

74.   Except, of course, when you bike at a ski area.

75.   Even by Christmas, it was largely touch-and-go at many ski areas, with those that managed to open having limited terrain available for skiing.

76.   Except that, comparitively speaking, the Rocky Mountain ski areas have not had much to crow about, either.

77.   Fletcher was talking about Beech Mountain, N.C., a southeast ski area where snow usually comes around like a distant cousin.

78.   Follow the road past the ski area to the Visitor Center.

79.   For Boyne Highlands, a ski area near Harbor Springs, Mich., management is looking farther down the road.

80.   For example, the most recent edition has a list of nursery and lesson ages at ski areas throughout the nation.