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- Title: Avalanche Transceivers: Uses, Limitations and Standards
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Franz Kroll
- Description: A first and quick glance on a snow surface will, simultaneously, show reality and illusion. It depends on the prior knowledge of the observer. What th...
- Object ID: issw-2000-342-344.pdf
- Keywords: skiing, triggered avalanche, transceiver, avalanche danger
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- Title: A Measuring Instrument for the Hardness and the Roughness of the Ski Slope - Correlatlon to the Gliding Properties of Skis - Penetrometer and Profilometer
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Daniel Buhl, Mathieu Fauve, Martin Schneebeli, Hansueli Rhyner, Walter Ammann
- Description: The analysis of the ski slope is crucial for understanding the gliding of skis. Especially in ski racing a detailed knowledge of the parameters of the...
- Object ID: issw-2000-409-411.pdf
- Keywords: ski slope, hardness, roughness, gliding, skiing
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- Title: Forecasting for a Widespread Heliski Operation
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Bob Sayer
- Description: This will be a 15 minute oral presentation, with slides, describing the procedures employed at Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing. MWHS is located in the ...
- Object ID: issw-1996-216b.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, helicopter skiing
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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting for a Helicopter Skiing Operation in the United States
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Jim Woodrnencey, Jon Shick
- Description: Helicopter skiing is not a new sport in the United States, with a history spanning over 20 years, it has developed into a viable business in several l...
- Object ID: issw-1994-527-531.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry skiing, forecasting, helicopter skiing
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- Title: Safe Skiing - Backcountry Skiing in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 1990
- Authors: Brad Meiklejohn
- Description: Over the three winters from 1987 to 1990, 70% of u.S. avalanche victims were "experienced" backcountry skiers. Current avalanche education does not ad...
- Object ID: issw-1990-097-110.pdf
- Keywords: safety, skiing, victims, education, snowpits, communication, snow stability
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- Title: Development of Avalanche Education and Hazard Forecasting in Hokkaido, Japan
- Date: 1990
- Authors: Charles W. Ziskin
- Description: Avalanche fatalities in Hokkaido have been recorded for more than fifty years and Japan devotes considerable public funds to the academic study of ava...
- Object ID: issw-1990-111-114.pdf
- Keywords: fatalities, education, avalanche, forecasting, hazard, terrain, skiing
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- Title: Two Colorado Ski Touring Hut Systems - A Comparison of Purposes, Avalanche and Snow Safety, Planning and Management
- Date: 1990
- Authors: H. Peter Wingle
- Description: Two ski touring hut systems in Colorado have different approaches to market group clientele and avalanche hazard avoidance. The earlier Braun system w...
- Object ID: issw-1990-218-226.pdf
- Keywords: skiing, hut systems, avalanche, safety, management, hazard, back country skiing
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- Title: Dry Slab Avalanches Triggered by Skiers
- Date: 1990
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Most skiers buried and killed in a slab avalanche triggered "their" avalanche themselves.
Avalanche forecasting should reflect this fact. In times of...
- Object ID: issw-1990-307-309.pdf
- Keywords: stability, forecasting, rutschblock test, skiing, dry slab
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- Title: North Cascade Helicopter Skiing Risk
- Date: 1988
- Authors: Eric Burr
- Description: Five seasons of operation with no serious accidents were halted last season (1988) because of insurance unavailability. The situation resolved itself ...
- Object ID: issw-1988-087-090.pdf
- Keywords: insurance, ski runs, helicopter skiing, risk,
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- Title: Mount Bachelor's Pine Marten Snowfence
- Date: 1988
- Authors: R.L. Jairell , T.C. Rodgers
- Description: Opening the Pine Marten lift at Mt. Bachelor, Oregon, in 1986 presented new opportunities for skiers (Figure 1). But problems with wind erosion at the...
- Object ID: issw-1988-158-165.pdf
- Keywords: snowfence, skiing, wind erosion
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- Title: Ski Friction and Thermal Response
- Date: 1988
- Authors: G.C. Warren, S.C. Colbeck
- Description: The low friction encountered in skiing is a result of the friction- heating-melting process associated with a slider moving over snow (Bowden and Hugh...
- Object ID: issw-1988-223-225.pdf
- Keywords: skiing, friction, thermal, melting, slider, metlway layer
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- Title: Utah Avalanches Forecast Center User Survey and Formats for Avalanche Advisories
- Date: 1988
- Authors: Bruce Tremper, Dave Ream
- Description: The Utah Avalanche Forecast Center (UAFC) issues twice-daily recorded avalanche and mountain weather advisories for the Wasatch Range of northern Utah...
- Object ID: issw-1988-241-250.pdf
- Keywords: uafc, weather advisories, survey, skiing, avalanche skills
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- Title: Management of Avalanche Risk Faced by Backcountry Skiers
- Date: 1986
- Authors: Lyle A. Sutherland, Harold J. McPherson
- Description: A survey of backcountry skiers in Banff National Park revealed that the skiers, although aware of the avalanche danger and generally well informed as ...
- Object ID: issw-1986-001-005.pdf
- Keywords: hazard, skiing, management program
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- Title: Snow Safety and Snow Management for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic Games
- Date: 1986
- Authors: Chris J. Stethem
- Description: Snow safety and snow management are important considerations in preparation for the XV Winter Olympics at Calgary, Canada in 1988. Snow safety program...
- Object ID: issw-1986-017-019.pdf
- Keywords: skiing, transportation, olympics, safety
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- Title: Sensor Frequency, Wave Guide Orientation and Type, and Their Influence on Acoustic Emission Monitoring of Snow Pack Stability
- Date: 1986
- Authors: Robert J. Watters, Kirk Swanson
- Description: Acoustic emission monitoring of the snow pack indicates that 1) acoustic emission rate is related to settlement, creep and snow loading rate; 2) snow ...
- Object ID: issw-1986-081-085.pdf
- Keywords: stability, snowpack, frequency, density, skiing activity
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