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- Title: O'BELLX 1.8: A MODULAR AND REMOVABLE GAS SYSTEM FOR AVALANCHE PREVENTIVE RELEASE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jean-Guillaume Aldebert, Thomas Berger, Cédric Larcher, Johann Query, Olivier Rivoal
- Description: The O'BellX range introduces a modular, helicopter-portable gas system for avalanche preventive release, designed for remote or environmentally sensit...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.50.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche prevention, modular gas system, helicopter-portable, synchronized triggering, eco-friendly, removable infrastructure.
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- Title: TERRAIN SELECTION TACTICS FOR HELICOPTER SKIING - MANAGING AVALANCHE RISK DURING THE 2022-23 SEASON
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Criag McGee, Carl Trescher
- Description: Managing snow avalanche risk during guided helicopter skiing operations is critical for guest and worker safety. The 2022-23 winter snowpack in Britis...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O14.04.pdf
- Keywords: guided helicopter skiing, terrain selection tactics, avalanche risk management, deep persistent slab avalanche problem.
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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
- View additional details about What type of ski runs are acceptable for skiing under different avalanche hazard conditions? Extracting knowledge from heli-ski guides
- 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: Can We Derive an Avalanche Terrain Severity Rating from Observed Terrain Selection of Professional Guides? A Proof-Of-Concept Study
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: The physical risk from snow avalanches poses a serious threat to backcountry recreationalists and the winter backcountry recreation industry. Professi...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.03.pdf
- Keywords: terrain selection, helicopter ski guiding, avalanche risk management, avalanche hazard, gis avalanche terrain classification
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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: West Twin Avalanche- Helicopter Involvement: How Safe are Our Pick-up Locations?
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Jeff Honig, Perry Bartelt, Yves Bühler
- Description: On Feb 19 2014, a Bell 205 helicopter of Selkirk Tangiers Heli Skiing (STHS), was shut down at one of the most highly used pick-ups within their tenur...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O14.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, helicopter, heliskiing, avalanche modeling, air blast
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- Title: Storm Statistics and Heli-ski Use in the Chugach and Kenai Mountains, Alaska
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Hannah W. Brewster, Eeva Latosuo, Henry Munter
- Description: Heli-skiing operations face a unique challenge in avalanche hazard forecasting in that the areas in which they operate are very large and infrequently...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.02.pdf
- Keywords: helicopter skiing, alaska, storm cycle, snow climate, historical snow records
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- Title: Cornice Control by Helicopter
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Bruno FARIZY
- Description: Cornice control with traditional blasting methods is usually hard and dangerous to implement. TAS has designed and has evaluated an experimental devic...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-54.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, cornice, helicopter
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- Title: Practitioners View on Quick Study of Snowpack: How to Explain the Vocabulary for Pole Probe Tests and Slope Cutting
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Theo Meiners, Kim Grant, Sam Sehnert, Matt Belford, Jessica Baker, Robb Maris, Aidan Meiners, Craig Fischer, Nicholas Houfek, Josh Pope, AJ Sanders, Mike Trombetta, Dan Janjigian, Sam Green
- Description: As practitioners and heli-ski guides in the Chugach Mountains of Valdez, Alaska we ski cut slopes to mitigate the volume of loose snow avalanches (slu...
- Object ID: issw-2012-023-027.pdf
- Keywords: sluff, helicopter skiing, snowpack structure, snowpack properties,snowslope stability
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- Title: The MLK Event At Crystal Mountain
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Christopher C. Morin
- Description: The winter of 2010/2011 created a surprisingly widespread weak layer across the
northwestern United States. In Washington state it became to be known...
- Object ID: issw-2012-240-243.pdf
- Keywords: snowfall, crusts, avalanche cycles, helicopter bombing
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- Title: Development of an Helicopter-Borne Gas Device for Avalanche Preventive Release
- Date: 2008-09-25
- Authors: Dr. Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Louis Noel, Bruno Farizy, Jean-Marc Neuville, Stéphane Constant, Pascal Roux
- Description: This new device called DaisyBell® combines the helicopter mobility with the advantages of a gaz system. It is an interesting alternative to the hel...
- Object ID: P__8099.pdf
- Keywords: preventive avalanche release, helicopter, gas device
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- Title: Interrelationships and Interactions Between Helicopter Skiing, Forests and the Forestry Industry in British Columbia, Canada
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Christina Delaney, Alexander Prokop
- Description: Helicopter skiing is intricately intertwined with forested landscapes and the forestry industry. The study objective was to determine, describe and an...
- Object ID: P__8076.pdf
- Keywords: forest, forestry, helicopter skiing, british columbia, avalanche
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- Title: Skier Triggered Surface Hoar: A Discussion of Avalanche Involvements During the 2006 Valdez Chugach Helicopter Ski Season
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Sarah Carter, Peter Carter, Jeff Levison
- Description: April of the 2006 helicopter ski season in the Valdez Alaska Chugach Mountains is characterized by numerous skier triggered avalanches. Preliminary da...
- Object ID: issw-2006-860-867.pdf
- Keywords: buried surface hoar, skier triggered, chugach, helicopter ski
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- Title: Avalanche Search and Rescue: Helicopter Mounted Avalanche Beacon Rescue Technique
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Works Infrastructure Ltd
- Description: As a result of an avalanche accident in September 1983 the Milford Road Avalanche Control Programme was established to forecast and manage the avalanc...
- Object ID: issw-2002-461-462.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche accidents, fatality, helicopter
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