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Title: FROM AWARENESS TO APPLICATION: TEN YEARS OF CONSUMER-FACING ATES IN THE UNITED STATES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andy Sovick
Description: The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) was designed as a communication tool to convey terrain complexity to backcountry recreationists through co...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain exposure scale, autoates, risk communication, terrain visualization, consumer behavior, backcountry recreation
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Title: BACKCOUNTRY TERRAIN USE PATTERNS UNDER VARYING AVALANCHE FORECAST CONDITIONS IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES: INSIGHTS FROM STRAVA ACTIVITY DATA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Marc Pons, Colin Bergeron, Julie Heinrichs
Description: Understanding how backcountry recreationists adjust their terrain choices in response to avalanche hazard remains a key gap in avalanche risk research...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, terrain selection, backcountry users, avalanche problems, mountain parks, crowdsourced recreation data, user-generated content
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Title: IS YOUR GUIDE CERTIFIED? THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROCESS FOR THE CANADIAN MOTORIZED BACKCOUNTRY GUIDES ASSOCIATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Curtis Pawliuk, Steve Scott, Iain Stewart-Patterson
Description: Formally trained, coached, and assessed competencies are defining characteristics of professional guiding practice. The primary responsibility of a gu...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.6.pdf
Keywords: backcountry guiding, snowmobiling, risk management
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Title: ARE YOU BEHAVING OUT THERE?: STUDENT REPORTED BEHAVIOR CHANGES AFTER RECREATIONAL AVALANCHE EDUCATION IN ALASKA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael A. Kerst, Eeva Latosuo
Description: Formal avalanche education has existed in Alaska since 1976. The Alaska Avalanche School (AAS) is the primary provider of this education and serves bo...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, alaska, backcountry behaviors, recreational courses
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Title: SEGMENTATION OF BACKCOUNTRY SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS IN JAPAN BASED ON RECREATION SPECIALIZATION: A CLUSTER ANALYSIS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Masashi Nagai, Nao Yoshizawa, Yasukazu Hama, Masanori Take
Description: Backcountry skiing and snowboarding (BCSS) involve serious mountain hazards such as avalanches and falls, requiring participants to manage risks appro...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.29.pdf
Keywords: backcountry skiing, recreation specialization, cluster analysis, participant segmentation, japan
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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: THE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE RISK INDEX: FORECASTING BACKCOUNTRY EVACUATION LIKELIHOOD FROM WEATHER AND VISITOR EXPOSURE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Matthew Sheahan, Peter Tsigaris, Anne Terwiel, Yaou Hu
Description: Backcountry risk assessment requires practitioners and operators to interpret continually changing environmental conditions alongside uneven patterns ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.14.pdf
Keywords: backcountry risk, evacuation likelihood, rare-event prediction, visitor exposure, decision support, search and rescue
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Title: VALIDATION OF BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY (BLE) COUNTERS FOR MONITORING BACKCOUNTRY USE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ingeborg K. Bruflot, Vegard Vereide, Håvard B. Toft
Description: It is widely acknowledged that backcountry skiing has increased in popularity in recent years. However, accurate quantification of participants requir...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.37.pdf
Keywords: quantifying backcountry use, bluetooth low energy, monitoring method
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Title: MANAGING RISK AND ACCESS: THE WINTER PERMIT SYSTEM IN ROGERS PASS, BC
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Mark Herbison, Ross Campbell
Description: Parks Canada's Winter Permit System (WPS) in Rogers Pass, within Glacier National Park, is a unique public safety program designed to facilitate winte...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.41.pdf
Keywords: rogers pass, parks canada, backcountry, artillery, avalanche control, winter permit system, glacier national park
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Title: THE PERSISTENCE OF SOCIAL HEURISTICS IN BACKCOUNTRY DECISION-MAKING: AN ANALYSIS OF RESORT-ADJACENT USERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Duncan Knight
Description: Avalanche fatalities in recreational backcountry settings remain predominantly linked to human judgment errors rather than environmental unpredictabil...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche decision-making, social heuristics, social proof, backcountry skiing, risk perception, group dynamics.
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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
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Title: FIELD-BASED HAZARD RATING (FBHR): A DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORK FOR RECREATIONISTS IN DATA-LIMITED ENVIRONMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Nikki Champion, Kiira Antenucci, Will McKay
Description: Backcountry recreationists often travel where formal avalanche forecasts, dense observation networks, and real-time snowpack data are unavailable. In ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.41.pdf
Keywords: backcountry decision-making, hazard rating, data-limited environments, heuristic traps, human factors, avalanche education
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Title: A METHOD TO COUNT BACKCOUNTRY SKIERS FROM BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY SIGNALS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Håvard B. Toft, Vegard Vereide, Ingeborg Bruflot, Aron Widforss, Eirik Gravdal, Olav K. Myksvoll, Audun Hetland
Description: Quantifying the number of people participating in backcountry skiing is essential for understanding patterns of use, user characteristics, and exposur...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.10.pdf
Keywords: counting, backcountry skiing, ble
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Title: POWDER, PERCEPTION, & THE PATRIARCHY: A GENDERED LOOK AT BACKCOUNTRY BEHAVIOR
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sarah Petelinsek, Kailey Mahoney, Nikki Champion, Rowan Kelner, Olivia Pearson, Boomer Olsen, Peilu Zhang, Patrick G. Hughes
Description: Gender may influence risk perception, decision-making, and participation in high-risk outdoor environments, yet gender differences among backcountry r...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.42.pdf
Keywords: gender; backcountry recreation; avalanche education; risk-taking behavior; risk perception; decision-making
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Title: A ROUTING ALGORITHM FOR BACKCOUNTRY SKI TOURS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Guenter Schmudlach, Andreas Eisenhut
Description: For over a decade skitourenguru.com has been assigning daily avalanche risk scores to thousands of backcountry ski tours in the alpine region. These ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O11.9.pdf
Keywords: backcountry ski touring, routing algorithm, avalanche risk, skitourenguru
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