The largest number of formal presentations ever at ISSW allowed a wide range of topics including snowpack properties, avalanche warning systems in Switzerland, blowing and drifting snow, avalanche policy and litigation and control methods. Even a paper on bacterial protein for snowmaking was given.

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This large number of papers was accommodated by having concurrent sessions with many papers available at the conference individually for a copying charge.

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13 posters and 12 commercial exhibits were presented. Numerous attendees were forced to leave when winter arrived early in the Pacific Northwest and ski areas began to open.