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- Title: What type of ski runs are acceptable for skiing under different avalanche hazard conditions? Extracting knowledge from heli-ski guides
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Reto Sterchi, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: While guides in mechanized skiing operations use a well-established terrain selection process to limit their exposure to avalanche hazard and keep the...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.5.pdf
- Keywords: mixed effects model, avalanche risk management, terrain selection, decision making, helicopter skiing, conceptual model of avalanche hazard
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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: Southcentral Alaska's Crack Problem: a 2015/16 Glide Avalanche Case Study
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Aleph Johnston-Bloom, Scott Hilliard, Wendy Wagner, Timothy Glassett, Heather Thamm
- Description: Along the Seward Highway corridor in Southcentral Alaska, the winter of 2015/16 was defined by a profound and active glide avalanche cycle. Persisting...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O3.01.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanches, alaska, operational decision-making, message fatigue
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- Title: Managing the Physical Risk From Avalanches in a Helicopter Skiing Operation--Merging and Contrasting Gps Tracking Data with the Operational Guiding Perspective
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins
- Description: In the backcountry, physical risk from avalanches is managed by 1) assessing the nature, severity and spatial distribution of the local hazard based o...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.02.pdf
- Keywords: helicopter skiing, decision-making, risk management, terrain choices, gps tracking
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- Title: Towards the Evaluation of Human Factors in Avalanche Early Warning Systems
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Martina Saettele, Michael Bruendl, Kilian Zwirglmaier
- Description: Early warning systems (EWS) play a crucial role in managing the risks posed by avalanches and other mass-movement processes to settlements and infrast...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O10.01.pdf
- Keywords: early warning system, human factors, reliability, decision-making
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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: What is the Risk Threshold that Backcountry Enthusiasts are Willing to Accept and How Does Their Perception Align with the Actual Risk Involved?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Terry Eyland, William Thibeault
- Description: An empirical investigation looked at backcountry enthusiasts? avalanche danger threshold and what the main factors are that alter that threshold. The ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.11.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, human factors, risk homeostasis, cost-benefit analysis, education
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- Title: Observing Ski Touring and Decision making in the Alps. What Ordinary People Do or Not Do, and Why?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bjørn Michaelsen, Carsten Rolland
- Description: Recreational avalanche accident prevention seems to be based on a universal understanding of snow and avalanche science. This has led to an impressive...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.13.pdf
- Keywords: ski touring, decision making, risk cultures, tradition, qualitative methods, avalanche education
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- Title: Chasing the Dragon - Can Impulse Control and Addiction Therapies Assist Some Recreational Decision Makers?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mark Kelly
- Description: Recreational backcountry travelers pursue their chosen activities for a variety of reasons. Many of the reasons that recreationalists choose to travel...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.14.pdf
- Keywords: addiction, impulse control, heuristics, decision making
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- Title: Tracking Snowmobilers to Understand Travel Behavior in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: This paper will present an analysis of snowmobile tracks from the 2015-16 winter season. Avalanche fatality statistics since 2000 shows that an increa...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.23.pdf
- Keywords: snowmobiles, gps tracking, decision making, avalanche terrain, education
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- Title: Exploring Large-Scale Terrain Preferences for Managing Avalanche Risk in a Commercial Backcountry Skiing Operation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Reto Sterchi, Pascal Haegeli, Clair Israelson
- Description: Guides of commercial backcountry skiing operations manage the physical risk from avalanches by assessing the local avalanche hazard and carefully choo...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.31.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk management, terrain selection, decision making, helicopter skiing, conceptual model of avalanche hazard
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- Title: Heli-Ski Guide Tracking for Institutional Memory and Auditing
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: Heli-skiing is a growing industry in many parts of the world, with new operations starting in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and elsewhere in rece...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.32.pdf
- Keywords: hel-skiing, gps tracking, decision making, avalanche terrain, management
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- Title: La Skieda Telemark Festival: Managing Risk and Human Factors of 350 Skiers and 12 Guides
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Fabiano Monti, Alberto Marazzi, Davide Spini, Christoph Mitterer, Walter Steinkogler
- Description: Often, accidents involving avalanche-aware people can be ascribed to human factors, i.e. inappropriate risk management; professional mountain guides a...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.46.pdf
- Keywords: mountain guides, decision-making, human factor, heuristic traps
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- Title: Avalanche Close-Calls During Courses – What Can We Learn?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Steve Conger
- Description: This paper and its associated poster present a study of avalanche close-calls or incidents that have occurred during field sessions in a formalized av...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, close calls, hazard evaluation conceptual model, recognition primed decision-making
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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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