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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: Handler Perceptions of Optimal Scenting Conditions for Avalanche Rescue Dogs
Date: 2012
Authors: Ryan R. Gould, Eeva Latosuo
Description: Little research has been done to directly link environmental factors such as wind speed, humidity and air temperature to scenting conditions for avala...
Object ID: issw-2012-363-366.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue dogs, dog handlers, scenting conditions, environmental factors, practical experience
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Title: Shoveling in the Name of Science
Date: 2010
Authors: Zack Quine, Eeva Latosuo
Description: The fitness level of a single person rescuer is the most important factor that increases an avalanche victim‟s survival. After examining 23 peop...
Object ID: ISSW_P-088.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, companion rescue, fitness, experience
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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: The Human Experience of Avalanche Rescue
Date: 1994
Authors: Gail L. Denton
Description: Avalanches ate a matter of physics. Being caught in an avalanche is a matter of personal intelligence, skill and luck (what we refer to back in our pa...
Object ID: issw-1994-431-438.pdf
Keywords: rescue, avalanche victim, death, human experience
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