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- Title: SKIING IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN WITH OR WITHOUT A LEADER: HOW DOES THE SKIERS' EVALUATIVE CRITERIA FOR GROUP PERFORMANCE DIFFER?
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Rong Guang, Lauri Ahonen, Gerit Pfuhl, Audun Hetland, Benjamin Ultan Cowley
- Description: A competent leader can help to improve group performance, for example by helping group members to choose actions that reduce risk; however an incompet...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.3.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry skiing, leadership, group dynamics, group performance, evaluative criteria
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- Title: THE GERMAN ALPINE CLUB (DAV) SKI TOURING STUDY: MINDSET, RISK ASSESSMENT AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES AMONG SKI TOURING GROUPS IN THE ALPS
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Martin Schwiersch, Michaela Brugger, Lukas Fritz, Bernhard Streicher, Florian Hellberg, Christoph Hummel, Thomas Feistl
- Description: This study investigates the decision-making processes of ski touring groups in avalancheprone
areas. Existing research has primarily explored specifi...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.14.pdf
- Keywords: tour planning, equipment, risk assessment, decision making, backcountry skiing
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- Title: IMPROVING AVALANCHE RISK ASSESSMENT FOR BACKCOUNTRY SKI TOURS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE NOVEL SLABS METHOD WITH EXISTING METHODS.
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Bart Degraeuwe, Günter Schmudlach, Kurt Winkler, Jochen Köhler
- Description: The main danger to which backcountry skiers are exposed are dry slab avalanches triggered by skiers themselves. This study introduces SLABS (Screening...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P12.2.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry skiing, avalanche, probabilistic methods, generalised additive model
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- Title: CHECKING ME, CHECKING YOU... DO YOU? A BEACON-STUDY IN NORTHERN NORWAY
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Richard Fjellaksel, Tim Dassler, Guang Rong, Tarjei Tveito Skille, Gerit Pfuhl
- Description: Avalanche beacons are vital for winter backcountry activities. They provide a means for locating individuals buried by avalanches, allowing efficient ...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P13.2.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, beacon group checks, transceiver, backcountry skiing, companion rescue, avalanche survival
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- Title: THE GERMAN ALPINE CLUB (DAV) SKI TOURING STUDY: DO AVALANCHE AIRBAGS LEAD TO RISKIER CHOICES?
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Bernhard Streicher, Michaela Brugger, Lukas Fritz, Martin Schwiersch, Florian Hellberg, Christoph Hummel, Thomas Feistl
- Description: Avalanche airbags have emerged as a significant advancement in avalanche safety, increasing survival rates by reducing burial depth during an avalanch...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P13.6.pdf
- Keywords: airbag use, airbag knowledge, impact of airbag use, decision making, risk taking, backcountry skiing
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- Title: HOW ACCURATE AND BIASED IS SLOPE PERCEPTION OF SNOW-COVERED MOUNTAINS?
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Gerit Pfuhl, Karen Ekman, Guang Rong, Lauri Ahonen, Ben Cowley, Audun Hetland, Matti Verkasalo
- Description: Estimating the slant of a snow-covered mountain slope is a difficult task. Human perception is tailored for accurate perception of cardinal orientatio...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P13.16.pdf
- Keywords: inclinometer, inclination measurement, avalanche education, backcountry skiing, cognitive biases
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- Title: LIFE-LONG LEARNING FOR SAFE MOUNTAIN FUN: TRANSFORMING BACK-COUNTRY SKIERS' PRACTICES THROUGH STIMULATING DOUBLE-LOOP LEARNING AT AVALANCHE COURSES
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Tim Dassler, Tove I. Dahl, Tarjei T. Skille, Gerit Pfuhl, Richard Fjellaksel
- Description: When skiing in avalanche terrain in the backcountry, bliss and happiness are always close to potential injury and even death. Safety in the snowy moun...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O12.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, double-loop learning, wicked learning environment, backcountry skiing, reflective learning
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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
- View additional details about ACCEPTANCE OF RISK AND CONFIDENCE ASSESSING AVALANCHE TERRAIN AND CONDITIONS – A LARGE CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
- 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: On the Practical Knowledge About Snow and Avalanches - What Are the Improvements in the Last Century or Do We Still Use Well-Known Findings?
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Peter Höller
- Description: This somewhat provocative title induces a couple of further provocative questions: Are welltried findings which were already identified 80 to 100 year...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-021.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, historical overview, backcountry skiing
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