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- Title: FROM THE CHIC-CHOCS TO THE SEA-TO-SKY CORRIDOR: BACKCOUNTRY USER PREPAREDNESS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Élodie Brousseau-Gaumond
- Description: Backcountry ski touring and splitboarding participation continues to grow across North America, raising the question of how preparedness is expressed ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.43.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry recreation, avalanche safety, preparedness, avalanche bulletin comprehension, human factors, sea-to-sky corridor
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- Title: LOOKING BACK—30 YEARS OF IMPACT: A CALTRANS GAZEX RACS HISTORY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Ryan Marvin
- Description: Since its introduction in the early 1990s, Gazex Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) have become a central component of avalanche hazard managemen...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.20.pdf
- Keywords: gazex, remote avalanche control, highway avalanche mitigation, caltrans, avalanche safety, racs
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- Title: HOW BACKCOUNTRY SKIERS TRANSLATE AVALANCHE BULLETINS INTO DECISIONS: A SEASON – LONG STUDY IN THE SONDRIO PROVINCE (ITALY), WINTER 2024/25
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jacopo Borsotti, Alberto Mariani, Martin Metzger, Giacomo Villa, Luca Dellarole, Davide Spini, Federico Martinelli, Giulia Geronimi, Fabiano Monti
- Description: Public avalanche forecasts are published daily by avalanche warning services to communicate avalanche hazard to the public for a particular area. They...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.35.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety; hazard communication; winter backcountry recreation; avalanche danger; avalanche bulletin
- View additional details about HOW BACKCOUNTRY SKIERS TRANSLATE AVALANCHE BULLETINS INTO DECISIONS: A SEASON – LONG STUDY IN THE SONDRIO PROVINCE (ITALY), WINTER 2024/25
- Title: A METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS AVALANCHE BULLETIN UNDERSTANDING AND TERRAIN SELECTION: A PROOF OF CONCEPT IN ANDORRA
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Aguirre-Noguera, B, Farías-Torbidoni, El, Revuelto, J, Llena, M, Margalef, A, Pons, M
- Description: Understanding how backcountry users interpret and act upon avalanche hazard information and terrain remains a central challenge in avalanche hazard ma...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.5.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard communication; decision-making; risk perception; avalanche safety. drone, sig,
- View additional details about A METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS AVALANCHE BULLETIN UNDERSTANDING AND TERRAIN SELECTION: A PROOF OF CONCEPT IN ANDORRA
- Title: PROJECT CAIROS: HARMONIZING AVALANCHE COMMISSIONS’ WORKFLOW, TRAINING AND TOOLS
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Michael Winkler, Alice Gasperi, Jakob Schwarz, Christoph Hesselbach, Anne St. Clair, Silke Griesser, Sergio Benigni, Mauro Gaddo, Michela Munari, Manuel Genswein, Christoph Mitterer, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Marc Adams, Harald Riedl
- Description: In many parts of the European Alps, local operational avalanche hazard management is understood as being avalanche commission work. In this context, n...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.3.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche commission, avalanche safety, risk management, dynamic avalanche modeling, cross-border collaboration
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- Title: 33 YEARS IN THE SERVICE OF THE AVALANCHE-SAFETY-TEAM IDALPE - A LOOK BACK AT IMPORTANT MILESTONES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT OF THE ISCHGL SKI RESORT
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Serafin Siegele, Paul Dobesberger, Harald Riedl
- Description: 33 winters, Serafin Siegele was an integral part of the avalanche-safety-team in the ski resort Ischgl. Not only are the slopes in the ski area and th...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O10.5.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk management, avalanche safety team, ski area management, controlled avalanche release, racs
- View additional details about 33 YEARS IN THE SERVICE OF THE AVALANCHE-SAFETY-TEAM IDALPE - A LOOK BACK AT IMPORTANT MILESTONES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT OF THE ISCHGL SKI RESORT
- Title: UNDERSTANDING EXPOSURE TO AVALANCHE TERRAIN AND AVALANCHE INFORMATION PRODUCT USE OF SNOWSHOERS AND WINTER HIKERS: INSIGHTS FROM MOUNT SEYMOUR PROVINCIAL PARK
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Griffin Slimkowich, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: Snowshoeing and winter hiking has experienced a tremendous boom in the last decade. To better serve this community with effective avalanche safety mes...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P12.4.pdf
- Keywords: risk communication, avalanche safety, user characteristics
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- Title: CHECKING ME, CHECKING YOU... DO YOU? A BEACON-STUDY IN NORTHERN NORWAY
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Richard Fjellaksel, Tim Dassler, Guang Rong, Tarjei Tveito Skille, Gerit Pfuhl
- Description: Avalanche beacons are vital for winter backcountry activities. They provide a means for locating individuals buried by avalanches, allowing efficient ...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P13.2.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, beacon group checks, transceiver, backcountry skiing, companion rescue, avalanche survival
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- Title: THE AIARE BACKCOUNTRY DECISION-MAKING GUIDE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW IT IS USED
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: R. Lee Frazer, J. Aaron Ball
- Description: Many avalanche professionals find decision aids or support tools useful to avalanche risk assessment. By extension, avalanche educators often employ t...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.39.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, avalanche education, risk management, decision support tool, risk assessment, avalanche safety
- View additional details about THE AIARE BACKCOUNTRY DECISION-MAKING GUIDE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW IT IS USED
- Title: MEASURING SUCCESS RATES, REACTION TIMES AND EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEPLOYING AVALANCHE AIRBAGS WHILE SKIING AVALANCHE TERRAIN
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Gabriel Benel
- Description: A study was conducted to observe and measure the success rates of subjects deploying an avalanche airbag while skiing steep avalanche terrain. A facil...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche airbag, avalanche safety
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- Title: USING GROUP SEARCH TECHNIQUES AND LANE DISCIPLINE TO BUILD AN EFFECTIVE "SEARCH ARRAY" IN AVALANCHE RESCUE
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Bruce Edgerly, Jim Conway
- Description: Professionals and recreational rescuers have a variety of techniques to deploy during avalanche rescues based on conditions, manpower, and rescuer exp...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.05.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, avalanche rescue, searching in parallel, search strip width, avalanche transceiver, avalanche beacon, transceiver search, beacon search
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- Title: PERCEIVED VALUES, MOTIVATORS, AND BARRIERS ASSOCIATED WITH A POPULAR FIELD-BASED DECISION-MAKING TOOL FOR BACKCOUNTRY TRAVEL IN THE U.S.
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: J. Aaron Ball, R. Lee Frazer
- Description: In this paper, we report the results of a non-random survey of recreationalists and snow
professionals familiar with a common, yet empirically unstud...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.38.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, avalanche education, risk management, decision support tool, risk assessment, avalanche safety
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- Title: Automatic People Detection in Avalanche-Controlled Terrain during All-Weather Conditions
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Susanne Wahlen, Lorenz Meier, Sam Wyssen, Bernhard Arnold
- Description: Avalanche safety management in release zones, avalanche paths and runout zones is critical for avalanche control work. At the Zermatt-Matterhorn ski r...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P07.11.pdf
- Keywords: detection, avalanche control, public avalanche safety
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- Title: Do avalanche airbags lead to riskier choices in the backcountry?
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Reto Rupf, Barbara Karlen
- Description: While the effectiveness of airbags for reducing mortality in avalanche involvements has been examined in various studies, the nagging question of whet...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O15.6.pdf
- Keywords: risk compensation, risk propensity, terrain preferences, avalanche safety equipment
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- Title: Peer Ambassadors at Work: Modeling Good Decision-Making in "Aggro" Freeride Films
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Bruce Edgerly
- Description: Aggressive freeride films from Teton Gravity Research, Matchstick Productions, and many others influence hundreds of thousands of young skiers and sno...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.5.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, freeriding, freeskiing, skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling, backcountry, filmmaking, social media
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