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- Title: A CLOSER LOOK AT SLOPE ANGLES OF ACCIDENTALLY TRIGGERED PERSISTENT AND DEEP PERSISTENT SLAB AVALANCHES
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Roger Atkins, John Sykes, Nicholas Rigby, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: Persistent slab avalanches remain a challenge for backcountry avalanche risk management. Of the 222 fatal avalanche accidents in Canada with known wea...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.7.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk management, perception gap, lingering instability, low angle avalanches
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- Title: AVALANCHE RISK IN BACKCOUNTRY TOURING: LESS—AND MORE—THAN WE THINK
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: David C. Fiore, Wendy Antibus, John Koopman, Fay Roepcke
- Description: ABSTRACT The Perry Peak accident on February 17, 2026, brought widespread attention to the risks inherent in backcountry ski touring. Perceptions of t...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.2.pdf
- Keywords: risk, perception, fatality, avalanche, ski touring, cumulative
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- Title: THE PERSISTENCE OF SOCIAL HEURISTICS IN BACKCOUNTRY DECISION-MAKING: AN ANALYSIS OF RESORT-ADJACENT USERS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Duncan Knight
- Description: Avalanche fatalities in recreational backcountry settings remain predominantly linked to human judgment errors rather than environmental unpredictabil...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.11.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche decision-making, social heuristics, social proof, backcountry skiing, risk perception, group dynamics.
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- Title: A METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS AVALANCHE BULLETIN UNDERSTANDING AND TERRAIN SELECTION: A PROOF OF CONCEPT IN ANDORRA
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Aguirre-Noguera, B, Farías-Torbidoni, El, Revuelto, J, Llena, M, Margalef, A, Pons, M
- Description: Understanding how backcountry users interpret and act upon avalanche hazard information and terrain remains a central challenge in avalanche hazard ma...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.5.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard communication; decision-making; risk perception; avalanche safety. drone, sig,
- View additional details about A METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS AVALANCHE BULLETIN UNDERSTANDING AND TERRAIN SELECTION: A PROOF OF CONCEPT IN ANDORRA
- Title: COMPREHENSION VALIDATION OF THE REVISED EAWS DANGER SCALE DESCRIPTORS: LESSONS FROM A LARGE-SCALE EUROPEAN END USER SURVEY ON AVALANCHE RISK PERCEPTION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Philip A. Ebert, Frank Techel, Matthias Walcher, Benjamin Reuter, Igor Chiambretti, Lorenzo Bertranda, Montse Bacardit Peñarroya, Jaka Ortar, Mark Diggins, Karsten Müller, Gerit Pfuhl
- Description: The descriptors of the European avalanche danger scale, in use since 1993, are being revised. In June 2025 EAWS forecasters agreed on a new provisiona...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.11.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger scale, risk communication, risk perception, descriptors, multilingual communication
- View additional details about COMPREHENSION VALIDATION OF THE REVISED EAWS DANGER SCALE DESCRIPTORS: LESSONS FROM A LARGE-SCALE EUROPEAN END USER SURVEY ON AVALANCHE RISK PERCEPTION
- Title: POWDER, PERCEPTION, & THE PATRIARCHY: A GENDERED LOOK AT BACKCOUNTRY BEHAVIOR
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Sarah Petelinsek, Kailey Mahoney, Nikki Champion, Rowan Kelner, Olivia Pearson, Boomer Olsen, Peilu Zhang, Patrick G. Hughes
- Description: Gender may influence risk perception, decision-making, and participation in high-risk outdoor environments, yet gender differences among backcountry r...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.42.pdf
- Keywords: gender; backcountry recreation; avalanche education; risk-taking behavior; risk perception; decision-making
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- Title: END USER INTERPRETATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AVALANCHE DANGER SCALE: A CASE STUDY FROM SCOTLAND
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Philip A. Ebert, David L. Miller, David A. Comerford, Mark Diggins
- Description: In this study, we investigate Scottish end users’ understanding and interpretation of the five point European Avalanche Danger Scale. Our main findi...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O12.5.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche danger scale, probability, risk perception, avalanche risk communication
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- Title: THE EVOLUTION OF RISK PERCEPTION ASSOCIATED WITH LOW-PROBABILITY-HIGH-CONSEQUENCE EVENTS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Terry Eyland
- Description: During the 2022-23 winter in western Canada, most avalanche fatalities were attributed
to the early season, deeply buried persistent weak layer (PWL)...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O8.05.pdf
- Keywords: risk perception, negative event feedback, avalanche education, decision making, trend effects, human error
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- Title: Survey on mountain behaviour and perception of avalanche risk in Andorra (eastern Pyrenees)
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Margalef A., Trapero L., Gallego N., Albalat A., Apodaka J., Pons M.
- Description: A survey of people’s behaviour in mountain habitats and their perception of avalanche risk, aimed at people who practice winter sports, was car...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.21.pdf
- Keywords: risk perception; training; safety habitudes
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- Title: How do experts interpret avalanche terrain from a map?
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Günter Schmudlach, Stephan Harvey, Lukas Dürr
- Description: Planning ski tours with accurate topographic maps is today a standard procedure. When a specific avalanche-prone slope has to be evaluated, the percep...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.7.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain perception, ates, avalanche terrain exposure scale, backcountry skiing
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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: Student Motivations and Learning Objectives Before and After a Level One Avalanche Course
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Cassandra Balent, Jerry Johnson, Jordy Hendrikx, Liz Shanahan
- Description: This study seeks to define student motivations and cognitive outcomes for an AIARE Level 1 avalanche course in order to explore how educational interv...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.27.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, risk perception, experiential learning
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- Title: Risk Perception and Precaution Adoption: A Study in the Field of Out-of-Bounds Skiing
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Mathilde Gletty, Dongo Rémi Kouabenan, Aurélie Landry
- Description: The avalanche phenomenon in out-of-bounds is particularly deadly for young people aged between 15 and 30 years. The French National Association for th...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-14.pdf
- Keywords: out-of-bounds, youth, risk perception, protective behavior, prevention
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- Title: Assessing the Impact of Avalanche Safety Training Courses in Andorra (2009 – 2012)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Aina Margalef, Pere Esteban
- Description: Since 2009, the EDNA has been performing courses about safety on avalanche terrain in Andorra. After 4 years, we carried out a survey asking the atten...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety course, transceiver training, risk perception
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- Title: Perception of Risk in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Krister Kristensen, Manuel Genswein, Werner Munter
- Description: Although avalanche training and the risk minimization strategies have greatly evolved and are being widely taught to recreational and professional use...
- Object ID: issw-2012-501-505.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, risk perception, education
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