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Title: AVALANCHE RISK IN BACKCOUNTRY TOURING: LESS—AND MORE—THAN WE THINK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: David C. Fiore, Wendy Antibus, John Koopman, Fay Roepcke
Description: ABSTRACT The Perry Peak accident on February 17, 2026, brought widespread attention to the risks inherent in backcountry ski touring. Perceptions of t...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.2.pdf
Keywords: risk, perception, fatality, avalanche, ski touring, cumulative
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Title: OH, THE STORIES WE TELL ... OR NOT: A POST-AVALANCHE CASE STUDY FROM THE GODMOTHER COULOIR
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Tove I. Dahl
Description: How can we facilitate learning through the sharing of difficult experiences for the greater good of the community? This study examines stories told by...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, story, storytelling, situated learning, resilience, learning
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Title: "SAFE UNTIL IT ISN'T": PRACTITIONER PERSPECTIVES ON RIDING STEEP COULOIRS IN THE BACKCOUNTRY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Tim Dassler, Tarjei Westerlund
Description: Steep couloir riding concentrates multiple hazards, such as avalanches, cornices, rock-fall, and fall risk, into terrain leaving little room for error...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.5.pdf
Keywords: steep riding, couloirs, qualitative research, avalanche education, risk communication, mentorship
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Title: ADAPTING THE RESPONSE ASSESSMENT AND DECISION-MAKING SUPPORT (RADEMS) TOOL FOR AVALANCHE HAZARD AND TERRAIN EVALUATION IN U.S. SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jennifer A. Reddy
Description: Search and rescue (SAR) teams in the United States are increasingly called to respond in avalanche terrain, yet most operate without a standardized sc...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.6.pdf
Keywords: radems, avalanche search and rescue (avsar), ates, dangerator, risk assessment.
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Title: A CONSEQUENCE ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR SITE-SPECIFIC ROAD AVALANCHE WARNING IN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Emil Solbakken, Halgeir Dahle, Tore Humstad, Njål Farestveit, Jens Øyen Tveit, Eivind Schnell Juvik, Dag Theodor Røsvik Andreassen
Description: Site-specific avalanche warning for roads is a risk-reducing measure that combines an assessment of avalanche likelihood with an impact-based assessme...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.1.pdf
Keywords: site-specific avalanche warning, consequence assessment, road avalanche risk, residual risk, impact-based forecasting
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Title: Before machine learning: validating historical SNOWPACK simulations for avalanche hazard forecasting in Glacier National Park, B.C., Canada.
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Benjamin Imbach, Francis Meloche, Jean-Benoit Madore, Paul Billecocq, Francis Gauthier, Alexandre Langlois, Philippe Gachon
Description: Accurate avalanche hazard forecasting depends on reliable snow and weather information, which is often unavailable in the complex mountainous terrain ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snowpack/alpine3d, model validation, weak layer identification, meteorological forcing data, glacier national park
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Title: REMOTE AVALANCHE CONTROL AND AUTOMATED AVALANCHE DETECTION SYSTEMS: CURRENT PRACTICE, OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE, AND IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Scott Thumlert, Paul Harwood, Harlan Shepard, Tim Glassett, Cam Campbell, Eirik Sharp, Brian Gould, Alexis Tessier
Description: Remote avalanche control systems (RACS) and automated avalanche detection systems (AADS) are increasingly used to operationally manage avalanche risk,...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.5.pdf
Keywords: remote avalanche control systems, racs, automated avalanche detection systems, aads, transportation corridors, avalanche explosive control
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Title: LEARNING FROM AVALANCHE ACCIDENTS: THE IMPACT OF THE WILSON GLADE PUBLIC ACCIDENT DEBRIEF
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Laura M.D. Maguire, Dave Richards, Drew Hardesty, Paige Pagnucco, Morgan E. Reynolds
Description: On February 6, 2021, two backcountry skiing groups totaling eight people converged on Wilson Glade in the central Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah. ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, education, human factors, behavioral change
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Title: ADOPTION OF AVALANCHE SAFETY BEHAVIORS IN MOTORIZED USERS: A PRECAUTION MODEL-BASED ANALYSIS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Kelly McNeil, Ian McCammon
Description: Motorized winter recreation (snowmobiling and snowbiking) accounts for about a third of avalanche fatalities in the United States. Although avalanche ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.2.pdf
Keywords: motorized recreation, rescue equipment, rescue errors, avalanche education
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Title: REVISING THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: PROCESS, FINAL PROPOSAL, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Karsten Müller, Frank Techel, Christoph Mitterer, Philip A. Ebert, Ben Reuter, Veronika Krieger, Igor Chiambretti, Anne Dufour, Guillem M. Bellido, Lorenzo Bertranda
Description: The European Avalanche Danger Scale (EADS) is the central framework for communicating regional avalanche danger in Europe. Since its introduction in 1...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche danger scale; avalanche hazard; risk communication; avalanche forecasting; eaws; european avalanche warning services
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Title: CONSIDERATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE UNCERTAINTY COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Eeva Latosuo, Pascal Haegeli, Julie Demuth, Stan Nowak, Ethan Greene
Description: Uncertainty is fundamental to avalanche risk management, yet public avalanche forecasts have not communicated it as consistently as other hazard chara...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk communication, uncertainty, public avalanche forecasting, user research
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Title: A SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING AND EVALUATING AVALANCHE RISK REDUCTION INTERVENTIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Anne St. Clair, Pascal Haegeli, Kelly McNeil
Description: In response to emerging problems or opportunities, such as avalanche incidents or technological advances, avalanche safety service providers face deci...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk reduction; intervention design and evaluation; decision-making
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Title: HOW DO PEOPLE READ THE FORECAST? TWO SEASONS OF SECTION-LEVEL DIGITAL ANALYTICS IN CANADA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Stan Nowak, Nick Rigby, Eeva Latosuo, Pascal Haegeli
Description: Understanding how recreationists use avalanche forecasts is critical to ensure their effectiveness. While previous research has largely relied on self...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.6.pdf
Keywords: behavioural telemetry, information foraging, risk communication, public avalanche forecasts
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Title: 20 YEARS OF VIDEOS FROM THE FIELD: USING THE POWER OF VIDEO TO SUPPORT PUBLIC AVALANCHE FORECASTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ian Hoyer, Alex Marienthal, David Zinn, Mark Staples, Doug Chabot
Description: In the winter of 2006–2007, riding the earliest wave of YouTube and armed with gear that would embarrass us now, forecasters at the Gallatin Nationa...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O3.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche communication, social media, video production, public outreach
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Title: FROM WARMING TO FAILURE: TEMPERATURE EFFECTS IN SNOW-SLAB AVALANCHE RELEASE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Claudia Binetti, Giuseppe Puglisi, Nicola M. Pugno
Description: Temperature is widely recognized as a key factor in snow-slab avalanche release, and field observations frequently associate warming with reduced snow...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.2.pdf
Keywords: snow-slab avalanche, weak layer, mode-ii fracture, temperature, statistical mechanics
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