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- Title: ACCEPTANCE OF RISK AND CONFIDENCE ASSESSING AVALANCHE TERRAIN AND CONDITIONS – A LARGE CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: David C. Fiore, Cameron C. Shonnard, Rondo J. Bauer, Lingchen Wang
- Description: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the ski industry worldwide by closing or limiting access to ski
resorts. We previously reported the results of our stu...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.06.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry skiing, avalanche, risk
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- Title: Methane production of snow-covered soils due to oxygen depletion
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Newesely, Ch.
- Description: Methane, one of the most important greenhouse gases is mainly produced by methanogenic bacteria during decomposition of organic material under anoxic ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P06.10.pdf
- Keywords: methane, skiing slope, oxygen depletion
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- Title: Quantitative Risk Reduction Method (QRM), a data-driven avalanche risk estimator
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Günter Schmudlach, Kurt Winkler, Jochen Köhler
- Description: Strategic methods are well established aids for planning backcountry ski tours. They typically combine the avalanche danger level and the slope angle ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O15.1.pdf
- Keywords: reduction method, strategic method, avalanche risk, backcountry skiing
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- Title: Peer Ambassadors at Work: Modeling Good Decision-Making in "Aggro" Freeride Films
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Bruce Edgerly
- Description: Aggressive freeride films from Teton Gravity Research, Matchstick Productions, and many others influence hundreds of thousands of young skiers and sno...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.5.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, freeriding, freeskiing, skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling, backcountry, filmmaking, social media
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- Title: What type of ski runs are acceptable for skiing under different avalanche hazard conditions? Extracting knowledge from heli-ski guides
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Reto Sterchi, Pascal Haegeli
- Description: While guides in mechanized skiing operations use a well-established terrain selection process to limit their exposure to avalanche hazard and keep the...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.5.pdf
- Keywords: mixed effects model, avalanche risk management, terrain selection, decision making, helicopter skiing, conceptual model of avalanche hazard
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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: Managing the Physical Risk From Avalanches in a Helicopter Skiing Operation--Merging and Contrasting Gps Tracking Data with the Operational Guiding Perspective
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins
- Description: In the backcountry, physical risk from avalanches is managed by 1) assessing the nature, severity and spatial distribution of the local hazard based o...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.02.pdf
- Keywords: helicopter skiing, decision-making, risk management, terrain choices, gps tracking
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- Title: Understanding Global Crowd Sourcing Data to Examine Travel Behavior in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: This paper will present a subset of our results from our last three seasons (2013/14 to 2015/16) of global crowd sourced data collection to examine tr...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.06.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry skiing, gps tracking, decision making, avalanche terrain, crowd-sourcing
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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: Exploring Large-Scale Terrain Preferences for Managing Avalanche Risk in a Commercial Backcountry Skiing Operation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Reto Sterchi, Pascal Haegeli, Clair Israelson
- Description: Guides of commercial backcountry skiing operations manage the physical risk from avalanches by assessing the local avalanche hazard and carefully choo...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.31.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk management, terrain selection, decision making, helicopter skiing, conceptual model of avalanche hazard
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- Title: Heli-Ski Guide Tracking for Institutional Memory and Auditing
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: Heli-skiing is a growing industry in many parts of the world, with new operations starting in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and elsewhere in rece...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.32.pdf
- Keywords: hel-skiing, gps tracking, decision making, avalanche terrain, management
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- Title: 3-2-1, Dropping! Harnessing Freeride Athletes as Avalanche Ambassadors
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bruce Edgerly
- Description: A study by Kruse et. al. (ISSW 2014) identified peer-to-peer communication as the key to influencing 17-to-30 year-olds riding in lift-accessed backco...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.36.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche awareness, lift-accessed backcountry skiing, sidecountry, freeriding, social media
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- Title: Possible Relationship of Media and Land Management to Three Separate Avalanche Accidents in Haines, Alaska 2012-2014
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mark Kelly
- Description: During the first 23 years+ of guided, helicopter accessed, skiing in Alaska, there were zero avalanche fatalities with guided groups. It should be not...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.52.pdf
- Keywords: accidents, avalanche, guiding, heli-skiing, fatalities, land management
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- Title: Storm Statistics and Heli-ski Use in the Chugach and Kenai Mountains, Alaska
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Hannah W. Brewster, Eeva Latosuo, Henry Munter
- Description: Heli-skiing operations face a unique challenge in avalanche hazard forecasting in that the areas in which they operate are very large and infrequently...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.02.pdf
- Keywords: helicopter skiing, alaska, storm cycle, snow climate, historical snow records
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- Title: Tracking Heli-Ski Guides to Understand Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Christopher Shelly, Jerry Johnson
- Description: Heli-ski guiding can be considered a prime example of high stress, high consequence decision making in avalanche terrain. The combination of factors t...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.38.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, heli-skiing, terrain analysis, gps.
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