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- Title: Snow Kiting and Biking in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Sarah Carter, Jennie Milton, Jeremy Hanke
- Description: In recent years the summer sports of kite surfing and dirt biking have developed winter equivalents: the new sports of snow kiting and snow biking are...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.25.pdf
- Keywords: snow kite, snow bike, winter mountain travel, avalanche terrain, avalanche safety
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- Title: Avalanche Safety in Ski Areas – The Legal Position in Austria
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Siegfried Sauermoser, Marianne Fritz, Gebhard Walter
- Description: The avalanche safety in the area of ropeways is regulated on the basis of the Austrian
Ropeway Act 2003 (version of 2012) in the so-called “Ava...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-16.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, austrian ropeway act 2003, ski areas, avalanche commission, cableway, ropeway installation
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- Title: Assessing the Impact of Avalanche Safety Training Courses in Andorra (2009 – 2012)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Aina Margalef, Pere Esteban
- Description: Since 2009, the EDNA has been performing courses about safety on avalanche terrain in Andorra. After 4 years, we carried out a survey asking the atten...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety course, transceiver training, risk perception
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- Title: Yukon Avalanche Association - The First Year and the Future
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Michael Smith, Eirik Sharp
- Description: The Yukon Avalanche Association (YAA) was formed in 2010 with the goal of promoting avalanche safety and awareness to an expanding group of backcountr...
- Object ID: issw-2012-214-219.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, terrains, winter backcountry recreation, canadian avalanche centre
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- Title: Analysis of State-of-the-Art Approaches for “Marking†During Multiburial Beacon Search Versus the Aspects of Fully Maintaining the EN300718 Standard
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Michael Schober, Markus Eck, Michael Rust
- Description: Over the recent years most of the state-of-the-art beacons now support the search for multiple burials using signal analysis strategies. Due to this, ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-214-223.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche beacon, transmitting range, avalanche safety
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- Title: On the Effectiveness of Avalanche Balloon Packs
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Benjamin Zweifel, Frédéric Jarry, Spencer Logan, Hanno Bilek, Marek BiskupiÄ, Hermann Brugger, Markus Falk
- Description: Even though avalanche balloon packs have been promoted in Europe since the early
1990s, they have only truly established themselves as an accepted av...
- Object ID: issw-2012-324-328.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche safety equipment, avalanche balloon packs, avalanche airbags, avalanche survival
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- Title: How Effective Are Avalanche Airbags? Field Tests of Avalanche Safety Equipment
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Lorenz Meier, Stephan Harvey
- Description: Avalanche transceiver – shovel – probe. This still is the standard equipment recommended for touring in the backcountry. More and more, ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-756-763.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche airbags, avalanche safety equipment, avalanche deposits, avalanche burial
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- Title: Adherence to Risk Prevention and Safety Measures in Backcountry Winter Recreationists
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Procter E., Strapazzon G., Staffler HP, Preindl A., Seebacher F., Castlunger L., Ebner I., Brugger H.
- Description: Rapid extrication within 10-20 minutes of complete avalanche burial is essential for survival (Haegeli et al. 2011). Safety equipment, along with basi...
- Object ID: issw-2012-827-830.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche burial, backcountry, avalanche risk, avalanche safety equipment
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- Title: The Propagation Saw Test (PST): A Review of its Development, Applications, and Recent Research
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Dave Gauthier, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: The Propagation Saw Test (PST) method was developed independently in Switzerland and in Canada in 2005 and 2006. It was inspired partly by observation...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1047-1053.pdf
- Keywords: fracture propagation, snow stability tests, avalanche safety
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- Title: Avalanche Airbag Survey: A U.S. Perspective
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Steve Christie
- Description: Several avalanche accidents in the winter of 2012 propelled avalanche airbag awareness into the mainstream of the United States. In our industry weÊ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-361-362.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche airbags, accidents, avalanche safety equipment
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- Title: Safety Concept for Hazards Caused by Ice Avalanches from the Whymper Hanging Glacier in the Mont Blanc Massif
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Martin Funk, Marco Vagliasindi, Massimo Broccolato
- Description: The Whymper glacier is a hanging glacier located on the south face of the Grandes Jorasses (Mont Blanc Massif, Italy). Combined snow and ice avalanche...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-055.pdf
- Keywords: ice avalanche, safety concept, hazard map
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- Title: Implications of Recent Research in the Fields of Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive Biology for Avalanche Safety Education
- Date: 2010
- Authors: David M. Sweet
- Description: Since its inception the goal of avalanche safety education has been to reduce or eliminate avalanche fatalities and injuries. Education about avalanch...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-033.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, decision making, cognitive biology, evolutionary psychology
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- Title: Compiling and Studying Professional Avalanche Worker Incident Data to Improve Worker Safety
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Scotty Savage
- Description: Avalanche professionals work in a hazardous alpine environment, often under physical and emotional stress. Working in an uncertain, stressful, and ris...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-044.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche safety, risk managment, decision-making errors, snowpack, weather
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- Title: Is it Safe? An Educational Poster Developed by Grade School Students for their Peers
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: 2007/2008 Fifth Grade Class, Andrew E. Slaughter, David T. Neal
- Description: A poster developed by the students of Mr. Neal's 5th grade class was specifically designed to educate their fellow schoolmates regarding snow and aval...
- Object ID: P__8056.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, safety, education
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- Title: Alaskasnow: A Practitioners
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Peter E. Carter, Sarah A. Carter
- Description: This poster presentation describes the enhancement of AlaskaSnow.org, the Valdez Chugach Region network of avalanche professionals, with a practitione...
- Object ID: P__8240.pdf
- Keywords: valdez chugach region network, avalanche safety, online data sharing
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