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Title: QUANTITATIVELY CAPTURING DECISION-MAKING PRACTICES OF MECHANIZED SKI GUIDES USING GPS TRACKING, AVALANCHE TERRAIN MODELING AND BAYESIAN NETWORKS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: John Sykes, Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins, Patrick Mair, Yves Bühler
Description: Snow avalanches are the primary mountain hazard for mechanized skiing operations. Helicopter and snow-cat ski guides are tasked with finding safe terr...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O3.03.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, avalanche terrain modelling, gps tracking, mechanized skiing, backcountry
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Title: TERRAIN USE METRICS AND AVYSCORE IN AVALANCHE AIRBAG USERS: A PILOT STUDY OF GPS TRACKING TO EVALUATE RISK HOMEOSTASIS EFFECTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Patrick Fink, Claudine Tobalske, Blessing Ofori-Atta, Matthew Ainsley, Scott McIntosh, Graham Brant-Zawadzki
Description: The effect of avalanche airbag use on backcountry user behavior is not known. Risk-homeostasis theory predicts that utilization of a new avalanche saf...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.37.pdf
Keywords: risk homeostasis, terrain choices, avalanche airbags, gps tracking, avyscore
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Title: How do we really use terrain in the backcountry? A comparison between stated terrain preferences and observed backcountry travel behaviour
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Hendrikx J., Johnson J., Mannberg A.
Description: Surveys have been used in avalanche research to gain insights into risk preferences and hypothetical choices to understand the links and drivers betwe...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.1.pdf
Keywords: decision making, backcountry, survey, risk, gps tracking, terrain analysis
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Title: Travel Behavior of Lift Access Backcountry Skiers adjacent to Bridger Bowl Ski Area, Montana USA
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: John Sykes, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Karl Birkeland
Description: Our research expands existing knowledge of travel behavior and decision-making in avalanche terrain. We utilize GPS tracking to observe the travel beh...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.3.pdf
Keywords: gps tracking, human factor, lift access backcountry, heat map.
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Title: Terrain selection and forecasted avalanche danger: Do recreationists select safer terrain when the forecasted danger increases?
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Aubrey D. Miller, John R. Squires, Lucretia E. Olson, Elizabeth K. Roberts
Description: Backcountry winter recreationists move through landscapes differently depending on myriad factors, including mode of travel (e.g., backcountry skier v...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.4.pdf
Keywords: terrain selection, gps tracking, recreation, gis, danger scale, avalanche terrain
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Title: How many start-zones capable of producing an avalanche large enough to bury or kill a skier do heli-ski guides encounter in a day?
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Eirik Sharp, Pascal Haegeli, Mike Welch
Description: Snow avalanches are the greatest risk threatening commercial heli-skiing groups. Guides manage the risk from avalanches by selecting terrain with a lo...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.1.pdf
Keywords: gps tracking, release areas modeling, terrain selection
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Title: Acceptable risk for backcountry skiers and riders from avalanche hazards: Differences in uphill and downhill terrain selection
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Aubrey D. Miller, John R. Squires, Lucretia E. Olson, Elizabeth K. Roberts
Description: Backcountry skiers and riders move through terrain differently depending on whether they are traveling uphill, downhill or along rolling or flat terra...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.3.pdf
Keywords: terrain selection, gps tracking, recreation, gis, danger scale
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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