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Title: A ROUTING ALGORITHM FOR SKI TOURING IN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Peder Undheim, Jan Ketil Rød, Håvard B. Toft
Description: An increasing number of Norwegians engage in ski touring in winter mountains. With growing traffic in avalanche terrain, there is a need for tools tha...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.2.pdf
Keywords: routefinding, gis, terrain, ski touring, decision making
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Title: POWERLESS: ANATOMY OF AN HISTORIC STORM CYCLE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Robert Griffith, Mike Rheam
Description: The second-largest storm in the history of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) occurred in February 2017. Referred to as the "Powerline Storm", this 1...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O11.2.pdf
Keywords: incidents and case studies, operations and program management, ski area, storm cycle, atmospheric river
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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: HISTORICAL SNOWPACK REANALYSIS IN OBSERVATIONALLY SPARSE ENVIRONMENTS: A CASE STUDY FROM SLIDE MOUNTAIN, 1986
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Evan Leonard, Eric E. Lawrence, Wendolyn Antibus
Description: Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe lacked a formalized avalanche forecasting program until 2008, resulting in a critical observational gap spanning approximately 55 y...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.2.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, snowpack modeling, historical reanalysis, ski area operations
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Title: FOLLOWING THE DATA: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A DECADE OF MAPPING AVALANCHES AND EXPLOSIVE USE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alex Mithoefer, Malia Reeves, Taos Ski Patrol
Description: Taos Ski Valley Ski Patrol has been using GIS mapping software to record explosive use and avalanche activity since 2015. In over a decade, we have d...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.3.pdf
Keywords: mapping, explosives, avalanches, ski resort, avalanche mitigation, gis
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Title: IMPROVING WORKER SAFETY AND ACCESS TIMING WITH AVALANCHE RADAR IN A COMPLEX SKI RESORT: CRANS-MONTANA-AMINONA, SWITZERLAND
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Fabrice Meyer, Severin Stähly, Susanne Wahlen
Description: The Crans-Montana-Aminona (CMA) ski resort lies on the southern side of the Alpine main ridge in Valais, Switzerland, on predominantly south-facing te...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche radar, doppler detection, remote avalanche control, worker safety, ski resort access management
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Title: MANAGING RISK AS A ROAMING SKI TOURING GUIDE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alex Geary
Description: I define a Roaming Ski Touring Guide (RSTG) as: "Guiding across multiple areas or continents within a season, for multiple operations and on private t...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O8.1.pdf
Keywords: capacity, decision making, human factors, run lists, ski guiding, infoex
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Title: AVALANCHE FORECASTING IN THE PEJO SKI AREA: A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH USING A SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christian Brida, Carlo Bee, Giorgio Rosatti
Description: Snow avalanches pose a major hazard in alpine ski areas, where reliable local forecasts are essential for operational decisions such as ski slope open...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.3.pdf
Keywords: artificial intelligence, avalanche forecasting, decision making, quantitative forecasting, ski resort management, local forecasting
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Title: AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT AT WHISTLER MOUNTAIN UTILIZING STRATEGIC MINDSET AND DE-BIASING STRATEGIES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Timothy R. Haggerty, Darren Saul, Nicole Koshure
Description: With over two million annual skier visits, and an operational season that runs from November to May and switches to an industrial forecasting program ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.64.pdf
Keywords: ski resort avalanche forecasting, risk management, strategic mindset, de-biasing, reflection, mentorship
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Title: APPLICATIONS FOR RADAR AVALANCHE DETECTION AT NORTH AMERICAN SKI RESORT OPERATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Reid Nolan, Nicole Koshure, Tim Haggerty
Description: Automated avalanche detection systems (AADS) have been utilized by a wide range of operations but have only recently been adopted by North American sk...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.44.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, avalanche forecasting, radar, automated avalanche detection systems (aads), ski resort, avalanche risk management
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Title: AN OPERATIONAL SNOWPACK MODELING AND VISUALIZATION PIPELINE FOR SKI RESORT AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Eric E. Lawrence, Wendolyn Antibus
Description: Numerical models of snow stratigraphy have long served avalanche forecasting where in situ observations are challenging, typically in infrastructure p...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.7.pdf
Keywords: snowpack modeling, avalanche forecasting, snowpack, ski resort operations, snow stratigraphy, interactive visualization
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Title: OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF SNOW CORNICE DEVELOPMENT ON ARTIFICIAL VERTICAL SECTIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Takahiro Tanabe, Kouichi Nshimura, Taiki Nunokawa, Yoshihiko Saito, Tsubasa Okaze, Satoru Adachi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Yoichi Ito, Sojiro Sunako, Hirofumi Niiya
Description: Snow cornices are overhanging accumulations of wind-transported snow that frequently develop along mountain ridges and may trigger avalanches when the...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.15.pdf
Keywords: snow cornice, blowing snow, ski resort, hazard assessment
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Title: A POST-MITIGATION DEEP SLAB IN THE HOURGLASS COULOIR
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Robert Griffith, Mike Rheam
Description: On the morning of January 1, 2026, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort saw its largest inbounds avalanche of the season in an area called the Hourglass Coulo...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.32.pdf
Keywords: incidents and case studies, post mitigation release, deep slab instability, ski area, explosives
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Title: IS THERE SAFE SKI TOURING? ESTIMATING EXPOSURE WITH AVALANCHE BEACON CHECKPOINTS IN INDRE SOGN NORWAY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Vegard Vereide, Audun Hetland, Ingeborg Bruflot, Thor Espen Fugelsøy, Håvard B. Toft
Description: Since 2008, 64 ski-touring–related fatalities have been recorded in Norway. Of these, 33 occurred in the Troms region, while only one fatality has b...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.57.pdf
Keywords: ski touring, exposure quantification, avalanche accidents, beacon checkpoint
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Title: AN ANALYSIS OF FORECASTER ACCURACY IN PREDICTING AVALANCHE PROBLEM TYPE AND LIKELIHOOD IN SKI AREA OPERATIONAL HAZARD ASSESSMENTS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Wendolyn Antibus, Evan Leonard, Matt Zupan
Description: Forecasting staff at Mt Rose Ski Tahoe have been utilizing the InfoEx International product to issue daily hazard assessments and record avalanche act...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O1.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ski resort operations, conceptual model, infoex, avalanche problem type, avalanche likelihood
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