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Title: Cupid Delivers New Slide Path to Copper Mountain: A Case Study of a Large Natural Avalanche
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Reed B. Ryan, Jeffrey W. Davis, William R. Blair
Description: In February of 2014, Summit County, Colorado experienced a historic avalanche cycle. During this cycle, Copper Mountain Resort (CMR) experienced the ...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O1.03.pdf
Keywords: natural avalanche, ski areas, deep persistent slab, bootpacking
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Title: Avalanches on the Roads: Operational and Research Aspects for the Managment of Risk Within the Project Alcotran. 144 "MAP3"
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Segor V., Dellavedova P., Pitet L., Bovet E., Durand N., Frigo B., Chiaia B., Maggioni M., Antonello G., Torretta F.
Description: The avalanche risk management on roads is a complex issue that concerns several aspects: social, economic and political. In particular, the problem is...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O10.02.pdf
Keywords: roads, avalanche hazard management, ski resort
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Title: Zen and the Art of Skier Contolled Avalanche Release: perspectives on key risk indicator in ski cutting
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Mark Vesely
Description: Ski cutting is a snow stability test that avalanche risk management professionals may apply for the purpose of either observing snow pack structural f...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O12.02.pdf
Keywords: ski cutting, hazard reduction, risk control, encounter probability, key risk indicators
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Title: CLV Web- Platform: a New Tool to Support the Management of Local Avalanche Hazard
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Segor V., Antonello G., Durand N., Dellavedova P., Frigo B., Pitet L. , Saudin P.
Description: The management of local avalanche hazard has always been one of the vital aspects in mountain areas. Besides being a job of great social commitment, i...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.12.pdf
Keywords: roads, avalanche hazard management, ski resort.
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Title: A Comparison of Avalanche Hazard Methodologies
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Robert H. Comey, Chris McCollister, Jake Elkins
Description: Large, active avalanche paths in the Casper Bowl and Crags areas of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort are situated above open ski runs. The hazard from...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.31.pdf
Keywords: ski compaction, artillery, avalanche hazard mitigation
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Title: The Art of Skiing Undisciplined during Level 2 Conditions
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Bjorn Michaelsen
Description: Level 2 conditions represent a large portion of avalanche accidents within ski touring. Have we missed something in our avalanche education? Most expe...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.33.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche problems, level 2, ski touring accidents, new tests
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Title: Avalanche Risk Management in Winter 2012/13 in Monterosa Ski Resort – Aosta Valley (IT)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Prola A., Welf A., Durand N., Frigo B., Dellavedova P., Segor V.
Description: Monterosa Ski is one of the most important resorts in the North/West Italian Alps. Extending through three valleys in two regions (Aosta Valley and Pi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-15.pdf
Keywords: ski resort, avalanche, risk management
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Title: Avalanche Safety in Ski Areas – The Legal Position in Austria
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Siegfried Sauermoser, Marianne Fritz, Gebhard Walter
Description: The avalanche safety in the area of ropeways is regulated on the basis of the Austrian Ropeway Act 2003 (version of 2012) in the so-called “Ava...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-16.pdf
Keywords: avalanche safety, austrian ropeway act 2003, ski areas, avalanche commission, cableway, ropeway installation
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Title: Le Sappeyen Chartreuse Ski Resort: How it is Managed and How to Take into Account Climate Change?
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Hubert Gallée, Antoine Kévorkian, Thierry Grenet, Pascale Huyghe
Description: The Sappey-en-Chartreuse is situated in the Chartreuse mountains, in the French Alps. The low elevation ski resort spans a range of 1000 to 1300 m a.s...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-26.pdf
Keywords: ski resort, french alps, snow cover
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Title: Toward Better Decision Tools for the Management of Frequent Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Segor, V., Pitet, L., Bovet E., Dellavedova P., Sovilla B., Steinkogler W., Veitinger J., Maggioni M., Chiambretti I., Prola M.
Description: Avalanche safety personnel often face with the problem of whether to close a road or a ski-resort exposed frequently to avalanches. Such decisions are...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-03.pdf
Keywords: strada, frequent avalanches, management, routes, ski-resorts, strategies
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Title: Forecasting Forest Avalanches: A Review of Winter 2011/12
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Michaela Teich, Frank Techel, Peder Caviezel, Peter Bebi
Description: Mountain forests play a crucial role in avalanche mitigation by hindering avalanche formation. Nevertheless, due to the complex interactions between e...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-24.pdf
Keywords: forest avalanches, forecasting, road, railway, ski-run safety
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Title: Challenges and Benefits of Continuous Weather Soundings on a Gondola During the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 in Schladming/Austria
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Arnulf Wurzer, Hannes Rieder, Christian Pehsl, Arnold Studeregger
Description: Atmospheric Soundings are measurements of the vertical profile of temperature, humidity and pressure. They are used to determine atmospheric instabili...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-05.pdf
Keywords: ski gondola, atmospheric sounding, weather measurement
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Title: A Network-Based Approach for the Study of Criticalities in Ski-Resorts
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Valerio De Biagi, Barbara Frigo, Bernardino Chiaia
Description: The correct management of ski-resorts requires wide knowledge in mountain hazards, as well as a large experience. Usually ski-resorts cover a surface ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-34.pdf
Keywords: ski-resort management, graph theory, criticalities
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Title: Future Changes in Ski Resorts
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Stewart Sheppard
Description: Ski resorts are on the front line when confronted with the consequences of changes in the business environment, changes in climate and sociological ch...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-38.pdf
Keywords: weather patterns, energy markets, sociologial change, adaptation, future ski resorts
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Title: Ski-Touring, Avalanche Risk and Human Factors
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Boris Valat, et Ludovic Ravanel
Description: Every winter, mountain practitioners are directly confronted with the question of avalanches. During the 2011-2012 season, 32 avalanche accidents and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-14.pdf
Keywords: ski touring, avalanche risk, human factors, decision making
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