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- Title: HUMAN AVALANCHE EXPOSURE: A MISSING LINK IN REAL-TIME AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jeremy Hanke, Shena Thomas, Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: Regional avalanche forecasts and terrain-classification systems describe avalanche conditions and terrain, but they do not explicitly classify the dyn...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.3.pdf
- Keywords: human avalanche exposure; motorized travel; human positioning; avalanche risk management; rescue readiness; decision support
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- Title: FATAL OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES OF AVALANCHE WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA - 1950 TO 2026
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Ethan Greene, Spencer Logan, Joe Obad, Brendan Martland, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: People working in avalanche safety are exposed to significant hazards at work. Despite the potential for harm, fatal workplace accidents involving ava...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.5.pdf
- Keywords: worker safety, risk management, fatal occupational injuries, avalanche accidents
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- Title: OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING AVALANCHE RISK PERCEPTION AMONGST WORKERS: A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO CULTURE CHANGE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Johanna Kelly
- Description: The Snowbird Snow Safety team has identified a need to better communicate the avalanche risk analysis process to ski patrollers on the front line. Rec...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS1.6.pdf
- Keywords: risk communication, operational risk band, culture change, risk acceptance
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- Title: FROM AWARENESS TO APPLICATION: TEN YEARS OF CONSUMER-FACING ATES IN THE UNITED STATES
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Andy Sovick
- Description: The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) was designed as a communication tool to convey terrain complexity to backcountry recreationists through co...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.5.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche terrain exposure scale, autoates, risk communication, terrain visualization, consumer behavior, backcountry recreation
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- Title: INTERSECTIONAL RISK: AN EXPANDED DEFINITION OF RISK FOR THE AVALANCHE AND GUIDING PROFESSION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Rachel D. Reimer
- Description: The Rise Study is a feminist appreciative Action Research project that utilized in-depth interviews amongst 17 mountain guides and avalanche professio...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.1.pdf
- Keywords: risk, psychological safety, human factors, intersectional feminism, climate change.
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- Title: "WHY CAN'T THEY GET THEM OUT?" RISK, SAR DECISION-MAKING, AND FAMILY COMMUNICATIONS IN DELAYED AVALANCHE RECOVERIES
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Amy Holman, Eric Geisler, Eeva Latosuo, Matthew Lemons
- Description: Avalanche training emphasizes immediate search and rescue (SAR), yet operational, environmental, and risk-based constraints can delay recovery for ext...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.5.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, recovery, risk, family, communication
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- Title: IS YOUR GUIDE CERTIFIED? THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PROCESS FOR THE CANADIAN MOTORIZED BACKCOUNTRY GUIDES ASSOCIATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Curtis Pawliuk, Steve Scott, Iain Stewart-Patterson
- Description: Formally trained, coached, and assessed competencies are defining characteristics of professional guiding practice. The primary responsibility of a gu...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS3.6.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry guiding, snowmobiling, risk management
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- Title: MANAGING SURGICAL RISK LIKE A MOUNTAIN GUIDE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Alexander Miles, Tim Ricci, Geoff Osler, Jonathan S. White, Simon R. Turner
- Description: While the professions of surgery and mountain guiding may seem quite different, there appear to be many similar challenges faced by both groups. Ultim...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.1.pdf
- Keywords: risk, decision making, safety, education
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- Title: THE RUN LIST IN MECHANISED SKIING: HISTORY, EVOLUTION AND CURRENT PRACTICE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Peter Macpherson, Scott Thumlert
- Description: Managing exposure to avalanche hazard through terrain selection is the primary avalanche risk mitigation strategy in winter backcountry guiding. The r...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O10.3.pdf
- Keywords: run list, run coding, mechanized skiing, canadian mountain holidays, terrain selection, avalanche risk management, decision-making
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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: THE DANGER ZONE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Steve Conger, Colin Zacharias
- Description: Too many avalanche workers have made the decision to position themselves or coworkers, helicopters, snowcats, or vehicles, in the run out of an avalan...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O11.5.pdf
- Keywords: risk, relative size, destructive size, forecasting, professional incidents, near-miss, full-extent
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- Title: MISTAKE-BASED LEARNING ACROSS HIGH-RISK DISCIPLINES: AN AVALANCHE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: J. Aaron Ball
- Description: Snow avalanche professionals operate in wicked learning environments, where mistakes are inevitable due to feedback that is absent, inconsistent, or d...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.1.pdf
- Keywords: mistake-based learning, professional avalanche training, high-risk decision-making, wicked learning environment, learning context
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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: MOUNTAIN RISK MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PRO ATHLETES AND FILM ENTORAUGE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: John Buffery
- Description: The objectives of the winter backcountry entertainment film industry are to capture unique moments of athletes riding in consequential terrain and to ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.3.pdf
- Keywords: risk maturity, iso 31000 risk management, self-rescue, risk communication
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- Title: "SAFE UNTIL IT ISN'T": PRACTITIONER PERSPECTIVES ON RIDING STEEP COULOIRS IN THE BACKCOUNTRY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Tim Dassler, Tarjei Westerlund
- Description: Steep couloir riding concentrates multiple hazards, such as avalanches, cornices, rock-fall, and fall risk, into terrain leaving little room for error...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O12.5.pdf
- Keywords: steep riding, couloirs, qualitative research, avalanche education, risk communication, mentorship
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