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- Title: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card: Facts, Fictions, and Controversies
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: Bob Uttl, Jan Uttl, Meaghen Henry
- Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card, consisting of the Trip Planner and Obvious Clues (Haegeli and McCammon, 2006), is marketed as a deci...
- Object ID: P__8161.pdf
- Keywords: risk, avalanche education, decision making
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- Title: Evaluating the Avaluator - First Reflections on the Canadian Decision Aid
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Wolfgang Haider
- Description: In 2006, the Canadian Avalanche Centre introduced the Avaluator, a decision support tool that offers amateur backcountry recreationists decision guida...
- Object ID: P__8116.pdf
- Keywords: avaluator, decision-making, education, evaluation
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- Title: A Lifetime of Learning in the Winter of 2008
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: Marc Piché
- Description: The winter of 2008 produced a series of persistent weak layers that plagued backcountry skiers from the very beginning of the season. These layers for...
- Object ID: P__8181.pdf
- Keywords: persistent weak layer, decision-making, variability
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- Title: Out-of-Bounds Avalanche Awareness: Assessment, Current Practices, and Future Management
- Date: 2008-09-26
- Authors: Ian McCammon, Pascal Haegeli, Matt Gunn
- Description: Increasing numbers of recreationists are accessing the backcountry beyond the boundaries of winter resorts. For recreationists, the sudden transition ...
- Object ID: P__8138.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, resort operations, education, risk management
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- Title: Avalanche Disasters in the Historic Record; A Survey of Cultural Attitudes in Western Civilization
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Adam Brown
- Description: Avalanches have existed for as long as snow has covered mountainsides. As such they are a natural phenomenon of infinite age. Avalanches become natura...
- Object ID: P__8253.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, human factors
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- Title: The Role of Intuition in the Decision Process of Ski Guides
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: The criteria individuals use and much of the decision making related knowledge base in professional, mountain guiding has remained poorly understood e...
- Object ID: P__8107.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, intuition, expertise, confidence
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- Title: The Avaluator's Obvious Clues Accident Prevention Values: Are They Replicable?
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Bob Uttl, Meaghen Henry, Jan Uttl
- Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card consists of the Trip Planner and Obvious Clues (Haegeli and McCammon, 2006). For Obvious Clues, the u...
- Object ID: P__8162.pdf
- Keywords: risk, avalanche prevention, decision making
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- Title: Evaluation of a Rule-Based Decision Aid for Recreational Travelers in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Ian McCammon, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: This paper evaluates a new decision aid for traveling in avalanche terrain.
The aid is intended primarily for winter recreationists in Canada and pro...
- Object ID: issw-2006-234-243.pdf
- Keywords: education, decision-making, risk management, safety
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- Title: Toward Better Decision-Making: Recognizing the Effect of Selection Bias in the Analysis of Recreational Avalanche Data
- Date: 2006
- Authors: N.J. DiGiacomo
- Description: A number of decision-related “urban myths†have taken hold in avalanche education as a result of statistical analyses of recreational aval...
- Object ID: issw-2006-244-253.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, decision-making, accident case studies, statistical analysis
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- Title: The Avaluator – A Canadian Rule-Based Avalanche Decision Support Tool for Amateur Recreationists
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Ian McCammon, Bruce Jamieson, Clair Israelson, Grant Statham
- Description: An exceptionally high number of avalanche fatalities during the winter of 2003
forced the Canadian avalanche community to question the effectiveness ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-254-263.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, risk management, decision-making, decision support tool
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- Title: Supporting Sound Decisions: A Professional Perspective on Recreational Avalanche Accident Prevention in Canada
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Laura Adams
- Description: Relative to recreationists, avalanche professionals in Canada have a high success rate for managing avalanche hazard and making sound decisions in ava...
- Object ID: issw-2004-441-451.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, decision making, human factors, hazard communication
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- Title: Differences Between Avalanche Experts and Novices
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Dale Atkins, Ian McCammon
- Description: Differences between avalanche experts and novices have long been cited as a key issue in designing effective avalanche education, yet few investigatio...
- Object ID: issw-2004-452-461.pdf
- Keywords: expertise, expert, novice, avalanche education, training, experience, decision making
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- Title: Sex, Drugs and the White Death: Lessons for Avalanche Educators from Health and Safety Campaigns
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Ian McCammon
- Description: A common expectation of avalanche education is that it should reduce the frequency of avalanche deaths. But is this expectation realistic? After all, ...
- Object ID: issw-2004-492-501.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, risk, decision making, training
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- Title: Comparing Avalanche Decision Frameworks Using Accident Data from the United States
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Ian McCammon, Pascal Hägeli
- Description: In recent years, a number of decision-making frameworks have been developed to help European recreationists make better decisions in avalanche terrain...
- Object ID: issw-2004-502-512.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, avalanche education, avalanche accidents, avalanche risk
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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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