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- Title: ACCEPTANCE OF RISK AND CONFIDENCE ASSESSING AVALANCHE TERRAIN AND CONDITIONS – A LARGE CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: David C. Fiore, Cameron C. Shonnard, Rondo J. Bauer, Lingchen Wang
- Description: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the ski industry worldwide by closing or limiting access to ski
resorts. We previously reported the results of our stu...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.06.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry skiing, avalanche, risk
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- Title: Quantitative Risk Reduction Method (QRM), a data-driven avalanche risk estimator
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Günter Schmudlach, Kurt Winkler, Jochen Köhler
- Description: Strategic methods are well established aids for planning backcountry ski tours. They typically combine the avalanche danger level and the slope angle ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O15.1.pdf
- Keywords: reduction method, strategic method, avalanche risk, backcountry skiing
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- Title: Risk of death and major injury from natural hazards in mechanized backcountry skiing in Canada
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Matthias Walcher, Pascal Haegeli, Sven Fuchs
- Description: Guests and guides partaking in commercial mechanized backcountry skiing are exposed to numerous natural hazards that can result in injury or death, bu...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O15.5.pdf
- Keywords: mortality risk, morbidity risk, backcountry safety, adventure sport
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- Title: How do we really use terrain in the backcountry? A comparison between stated terrain preferences and observed backcountry travel behaviour
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Hendrikx J., Johnson J., Mannberg A.
- Description: Surveys have been used in avalanche research to gain insights into risk preferences and hypothetical choices to understand the links and drivers betwe...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.1.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, backcountry, survey, risk, gps tracking, terrain analysis
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- Title: How risky is it? Perception of risk among Norwegian backcountry riders
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Andrea Mannberg, Jordy Hendrikx, Markus Landrø, Martin Stefan
- Description: We use a hypothetical choice scenario to analyze factors that affect the perceived risk of potentially risky backcountry terrain. Our results show tha...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.13.pdf
- Keywords: perceived risk, terrain, backcountry, hypothetical choice
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- Title: To go or not to go: Decision making at individual slope
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Stephan Harvey, Hansueli Rhyner, Lukas Dürr, Hans Martin Henny
- Description: The holistic assessment and decision framework «3 × 3» is well established for ski and snowboard tours. Whereas difficult decisions can be p...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.15.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, avalanche prevention, individual slope, backcountry touring, risk assessment, education
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- Title: Are they experts? Self-assessed backcountry skills among backcountry skiers in Norway and North America
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Mannberg A., Hendrikx J., Johnson J.
- Description: We analyze how backcountry skiers’ perceived ability to manage avalanche terrain correlate with more objective measures of experience and skill...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.18.pdf
- Keywords: self-assessed skill, over-confidence, backcountry, decision-making
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- Title: Practical education kit for avalanche training with groups
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Hansueli Rhyner, Stephan Harvey, Lukas Dürr, Hans Martin Henny
- Description: «Learning by doing» is an obvious credo for every instructor. In avalanche education, however, trying out everything yourself can be dangerous. ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.21.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche prevention, backcountry touring, education, training kit
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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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- Title: Avalanche terrain maps for backcountry skiing in Switzerland
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Stephan Harvey, Günter Schmudlach, Yves Bühler, Lukas Dürr, Andreas Stoffel, Marc Christen
- Description: Terrain characteristics are one of the main factors contributing to avalanche formation. Hence, terrain assessment is crucial for planning and decisio...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.1.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain, avalanche terrain map, avalanche hazard mapping, backcountry touring
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- Title: Travel Behavior of Lift Access Backcountry Skiers adjacent to Bridger Bowl Ski Area, Montana USA
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: John Sykes, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Our research expands existing knowledge of travel behavior and decision-making in avalanche terrain. We utilize GPS tracking to observe the travel beh...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.3.pdf
- Keywords: gps tracking, human factor, lift access backcountry, heat map.
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- Title: Keeping up with Jeremy Jones: Positional preferences and risky terrain choices
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Andrea Mannberg, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: We use results from an online survey distributed in North America (N = 796), to analyze if backcountry riders’ level of contentment is affected...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.6.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, backcountry, postionality, terrain
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- Title: How do experts interpret avalanche terrain from a map?
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Günter Schmudlach, Stephan Harvey, Lukas Dürr
- Description: Planning ski tours with accurate topographic maps is today a standard procedure. When a specific avalanche-prone slope has to be evaluated, the percep...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.7.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain perception, ates, avalanche terrain exposure scale, backcountry skiing
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- Title: Snowmobilers terrain preferences and exposure to avalanche terrain
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Haworth, C., Hendrikx J., Johnson J., Sykes, J.
- Description: Avalanche fatality statistics since 2000 shows that an increasing number of snowmobilers are killed in avalanches in the US. This increase has been at...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.8.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, backcountry, risk, gps tracking, terrain analysis
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- Title: Using Time-Lapse Photography to Monitor Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Diana Saly, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Doug Richmond
- Description: On January 14, 2016 an avalanche occurred on the Football Field of Saddle Peak in Southwest Montana. Saddle Peak is a backcountry slope, located immed...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.03.pdf
- Keywords: time-lapse photography, backcountry, case study, terrain use
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