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- Title: Avalanche Risk in Winter Backcountry Touring: Status and Recent Trends in Switzerland
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kurt Winkler, Adrian Fischer, Frank Techel
- Description: Avalanches are the major cause of accidental death while recreating in the mountains during winter. Up to now the calculation of the statistical risk ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk, backcountry touring, snowshoe hiking, mortality rate
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- Title: Understanding Global Crowd Sourcing Data to Examine Travel Behavior in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: This paper will present a subset of our results from our last three seasons (2013/14 to 2015/16) of global crowd sourced data collection to examine tr...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.06.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry skiing, gps tracking, decision making, avalanche terrain, crowd-sourcing
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- Title: Direct and Indirect Avalanche Experiences Among Backcountry Skiers: Relationships with Risk Perception and Use of Safety Gear
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Davide Marengo, Paola Dellavedova, Maria G. Monaci, Renato Miceli
- Description: A relevant factor that may affect risk perception and behaviors related to natural hazard is personal experience. Findings on recreational sports (e.g...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.10.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche experience, backcountry skiing, risk perception
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- Title: Utilizing Common Radio Channels in High-Use Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Matt H. Steen, Bruce Edgerly
- Description: Winter backcountry travel is increasingly more popular, especially adjacent to ski areas and common-use trailheads. The increase of winter recreation ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.47.pdf
- Keywords: radio communication, backcountry safety, group management, rescue
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- Title: Backcountry and Sidecountry Users: an Intercept Survey Approach
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kevin Fitzgerald, Jessica Kay, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: This paper explores the differences in overall preparedness (i.e. equipment, skills, knowledge and awareness) between backcountry, and lift-accessed b...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.29.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, recreation, backcountry, sidecountry
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- Title: Attributes of Avalanche Education Seminar Participants and Trends in the Experience of Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Azusa Degawa
- Description: In the improvement of avalanche safety countermeasures and avalanche education, it is crucial to understand the characteristics of the participants. A...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.31.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche incidents, backcountry users
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- Title: 3-2-1, Dropping! Harnessing Freeride Athletes as Avalanche Ambassadors
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bruce Edgerly
- Description: A study by Kruse et. al. (ISSW 2014) identified peer-to-peer communication as the key to influencing 17-to-30 year-olds riding in lift-accessed backco...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.36.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche awareness, lift-accessed backcountry skiing, sidecountry, freeriding, social media
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- Title: Framework of Risk Management for Backcountry Travel in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: D.M. McClung
- Description: The terms risk analysis, risk assessment and risk management are used loosely in avalanche applications. The overall structure of risk management is w...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O11.03.pdf
- Keywords: risk management, risk assessment, risk analysis, slab avalanche, backcountry
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- Title: Planning and Radio Use for Backcountry Skiers
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Jerry D. Johnson, Kirk Bachman, Drew Pogge
- Description: We assessed tour planning and group communication among backcountry hut users and how the use of the new BCA Link two-way radios affected these two re...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.13.pdf
- Keywords: tour planning, radio communication, backcountry safety
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- Title: Livigno (Italy) Freeride Project
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Walter Steinkogler, Christoph Mitterer
- Description: In Italy, the ambiguities in national laws regarding personal liability make managing backcountry activities difficult. Livigno is a village in the mi...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.48.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education; risk management; backcountry skiing, out-of-bounds skiing
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- Title: How the Freedom of the Hills has Become Anarchy in the Backcountry – Do We Need a Backcountry Responsibility Code?
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Drew Hardesty
- Description: The Freedom of the Hills has always been one of the draws of exploring the mountains with the opportunity to test one's mettle and skills through self...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.06.pdf
- Keywords: public safety, backcountry responsibility code, liability
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- Title: Patterns of Recreational Backcountry Usage - Analyzing Data from Social Media Mountaineering Networks and Avalanche Statistics
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: F. Techel, B. Zweifel, K. Winkler, R. Baur
- Description: Most avalanche accidents involving people occur during recreational activities. So far, risk analysis studies mostly rely on accident statistics witho...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche risk, backcountry usage, avalanche danger, social media
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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: The Cumulation of Avalanche Accidents in Certain Periods– An Analysis of Backcountry Events in Austria
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Peter Höller
- Description: This paper deals with an analysis of backcountry avalanche events in Austria. In particular the cumulation of accidents in certain periods will be inv...
- Object ID: issw-2012-329-332.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry avalanches, avalanche accidents, avalanche statistics
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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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