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Title: SMALL MID-MOUNTAIN SKI RESORTS FACING CLIMATE CHANGE: THE TESTIMONY OF SAINT-HILAIRE-DU-TOUVET, CHARTREUSE, FRANCE
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Guillaume Broust, Sandra Buisson, Marion Couble, Elodie Eymard, Jocelyne Grosso, Fabrice Konarski, Pascal Lacroix, Isabelle Lecomte, Olivier Prache, Pierre Roigt, Loïc Vicier, Joe Vicier, Anne Dufour
Description: Saint-Hilaire-du-Touvet is known worldwide by paragliders thanks to its breathtaking panorama embracing, among others the Mont-Blanc. It has been in t...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O5.5.pdf
Keywords: small ski resort, climate change, ski for all, adaptation, agility
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Title: ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF MOUNTAIN AREAS: MULTI-SOURCE DATA USE FOR RESOURCE SAVING AND EFFICIENT SNOW MAKING IN A CHANGING CLIMATE - A CASE STUDY FROM GASTEIN
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: MSc Andrea Mayer, MSc Maximilian Mündler
Description: Ski resorts in Austria and worldwide face significant challenges due to climate change, including rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.6.pdf
Keywords: slope management, snowmaking, climate change, geo data, gis, ski resorts
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Title: 33 YEARS IN THE SERVICE OF THE AVALANCHE-SAFETY-TEAM IDALPE - A LOOK BACK AT IMPORTANT MILESTONES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT OF THE ISCHGL SKI RESORT
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Serafin Siegele, Paul Dobesberger, Harald Riedl
Description: 33 winters, Serafin Siegele was an integral part of the avalanche-safety-team in the ski resort Ischgl. Not only are the slopes in the ski area and th...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O10.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, avalanche safety team, ski area management, controlled avalanche release, racs
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Title: SKI GUIDING AS PRACTICE: PERFORMING ROUTINES AND MAKING SENSE IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Stig Løland
Description: A ski guide’s job is to take paying clients into avalanche terrain to provide good skiing experiences. In attempts to keep skiers safe, research on ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O11.1.pdf
Keywords: ski guiding, sensemaking, routine dynamics, practice theory
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Title: A ROUTING ALGORITHM FOR BACKCOUNTRY SKI TOURS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Guenter Schmudlach, Andreas Eisenhut
Description: For over a decade skitourenguru.com has been assigning daily avalanche risk scores to thousands of backcountry ski tours in the alpine region. These ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O11.9.pdf
Keywords: backcountry ski touring, routing algorithm, avalanche risk, skitourenguru
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Title: FRIENDS ON A POWDER DAY: A PILOT STUDY QUANTIFYING SKI PATROL TRAUMATIC EVENT EXPOSURES AND EVALUATING MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH LEVELS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Elizabeth Keller, PhD, RN, Wendie Robbins, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAAOHN, Yijia Sun, Jian Li, MD, PhD, Dr.rer.sec
Description: Ski patrollers are avalanche and snow science experts, in addition to emergency first responders. As they care for ski and snowboard injuries in criti...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P14.1.pdf
Keywords: occupational health, wilderness first responders, worker wellbeing, national ski patrol, snow science
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Title: HISTORIC WET SLAB AVALANCHE IN POST SEASON AT YELLOWSTONE CLUB: TIMING, RESPONSE, ANALYSIS, AND IMPLICATIONS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Doug McCabe
Description: In May of 2020, a very large, natural wet slab avalanche occurred in-bounds at the Yellowstone Club Ski Area after the ski area had ceased operations ...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.18.pdf
Keywords: wet slab avalanche, avalanche forecasting, ski area operations.
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Title: REFRAMING "SKI CUT": ADDING CONTEXT TO IMPROVE RISK COMMUNICATION
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Jimmy Tart
Description: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "set" is the most versatile in the English language. With 463 variations listed in the most recen...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.54.pdf
Keywords: ski cut, communication, safety, risk management
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Title: CHARACTERISTICS OF INBOUNDS AVALANCHE FATALITIES AT UNITED STATES SKI AREAS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Paul Baugher, Scott Savage, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: Inbounds avalanche fatalities are both tragic and rare. Largely due to the diligent mitigation efforts of avalanche programs, the risk of a skier or s...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O14.05.pdf
Keywords: inbounds avalanches, post mitigation release, ski area risk management, avalanche mitigation, ski area avalanche fatalities, ski area litigation
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Title: A new approach to avalanche risk assessment in Russia
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Anton Komarov, Yuri Seliverstov, Alla Turchaninova, Sergey Sokratov
Description: Snow avalanches pose a challenging problem in many mountain regions of Russia. The expansion of infrastructure and therefore the increased avalanche r...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O03.8.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, risk assessment, risk zoning, ramms, ski resort.
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Title: Combination of climatological information and meteorological forecast for seamless prediction of alpine snow conditions
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Carlo Maria Carmagnola, Samuel Morin, Matthieu Lafaysse, Matthieu Vernay, Hugues François, Nicolas Eckert, Lauriane Batté, Jean-Michel Soubeyroux, Christian Viel
Description: Ski-resort management strongly depends on meteorological conditions, in particular natural snowfall and conditions favorable for technical snowmaking....
Object ID: ISSW2018_O06.1.pdf
Keywords: ski-resorts, snow management, snowmaking, snowpack modeling, numerical weather prediction, climate services
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Title: Climate change impacts on the snow reliability of French Alps ski resorts
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Pierre Spandre, Hugues François, Deborah Verfaillie, Matthieu Lafaysse, Michel Déqué, Nicolas Eckert, Emmanuelle George, Samuel Morin
Description: The recent evolutions of snowmaking as a mitigation method to address the interannual variability and decrease of natural snow conditions in past deca...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O06.2.pdf
Keywords: ski resorts, snow reliability, snowmaking, climate change.
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Title: Simulating snow conditions in ski resorts with the physically based snowpack models AMUNDSEN, Crocus, and SNOWPACK/Alpine3D
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Florian Hanzer, Carlo Carmagnola, Pirmin Phlipp Ebner, Mathias Bavay, Matthieu Lafaysse, Michael Lehning, Ulrich Strasser, Hugues Francois, Samuel Morin
Description: Physically based snowpack models are commonly used for the simulation of the snow cover in mountain regions in a high level of detail and process repr...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O06.3.pdf
Keywords: snow management, ski resorts, snowpack modeling.
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Title: The Economics of Snow in a Changing Climate
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Marca Hagenstad, Elizabeth Burakowski, Rebecca Hill
Description: The U.S. winter sports industry is an important economic sector, proving jobs and revenues to mountain towns across the country. It has already been i...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O06.6.pdf
Keywords: climate change, snow, economic impact, ski, snowmobile.
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Title: The mountain component of the Copernicus Climate Change Services - Sectoral Information Service "European Tourism": towards pan-European analysis and projections of natural and managed snow conditions
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Samuel Morin, Bruno Abegg, O. Cenk Demiroglu, Marc Pons, Fabian Weber, Anna Amacher Hoppler, Hugues François, Emmanuelle George, Jean-Michel Soubeyroux, Raphaëlle Samacoïts, Matthieu Lafaysse, Sam Franklin, Debbie Clifford, Adeline Cauchy, Ghislain Dubois
Description: Ski tourism plays a major role in European mountain areas such as the Alps, Pyrenees, Scandinavia, Turkey, Eastern European Mountains etc. Meteorologi...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P06.3.pdf
Keywords: ski resorts, climate, snow management, climate service
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