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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: 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: Parks Canada’s Evolution of Public Avalanche Safety
Date: 2004
Authors: Grant Statham
Description: The winter of 2002/03 presented western Canada with one of the most complex and challenging snowpacks in recent memory. On February 1, 2003 in Glacie...
Object ID: issw-2004-534.pdf
Keywords: safety, terrain, risk, backcountry, decision making
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