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- Title: Installation Design of the Avalanche Impact Pylon Facility, Alta, Utah
- Date: 1992
- Authors: Andrea Clayton, Rand Decker, Charles Richardson, Osamu Abe
- Description: In order to research avalanche forces, an impact pylon was installed at Alta Ski Area, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. The pylon is located beneath Mo...
- Object ID: issw-1992-182-190.pdf
- Keywords: epoxy anchor belts, ski lifts, avalanche path, release
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- Title: Ski Area Avalanche Control a Summary of Methods, Procedures and Manpower
- Date: 1992
- Authors: Larry Heywood, Carolyn Craig
- Description: This past winter forty nine U.S. ski areas were sent questionnaires regarding their avalanche control program. The questionnaire surveyed a variety of...
- Object ID: issw-1992-191-204.pdf
- Keywords: explosives, control, rescue, forecasting
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- Title: The East Riverside Avalanche Accident of 1992: Engineering and Snow-Safety Considerations
- Date: 1992
- Authors: Arthur I. Mears
- Description: A high-intensity snowstorm (>1 m snow and >8cm water in 2 days) produced widespread avalanching in Colorado's northern San Juan Mountains during early...
- Object ID: issw-1992-246-257.pdf
- Keywords: rescue, accident, forecast program, hazard reducation
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- Title: Traffic Management for Avalanche Safety Trans-Canada Highway Rogers Pass British Columbia
- Date: 1992
- Authors: David Skjonsberg, John Morrall
- Description: The Rogers Pass area in the Selkirk mountain range of British Columbia receives some of the heaviest snowfalls in Canada with an average of about 1000...
- Object ID: issw-1992-258-268.pdf
- Keywords: safety, awareness, control, highway, snowfall
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- Title: The NX-Log Project
- Date: 1992
- Authors: R. Bolognesi, O. Buser, W. Good
- Description: The objective of the project NX-LOG is to construct a new decision support system for
local avalanche assessment. This system should give for every d...
- Object ID: issw-1992-299-300.pdf
- Keywords: nx-log, analogous reasoning, deductive reasoning, safety, risk
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- Title: Computer System for Avalanche Hazard Analysis at Rogers Pass, British Columbia
- Date: 1992
- Authors: Bob Malenko, Dave Skjonsberg
- Description: A vast amount of information is gathered each year around the world by avalanche safety and control operations. Data which was formally stored in fiel...
- Object ID: issw-1992-323-325.pdf
- Keywords: hazard, safety, software, forecasting
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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: A Computerized System Designed for Local Avalanche Hazard Forecasting in Tignes, Savoie, France
- Date: 1990
- Authors: Edouardo Garreaud, Lionel Navillod, Henry Schniewind
- Description: The SERVICE DES PISTES DE TIGNES (Tignes Ski Patrol) began developing a computerized system with the help of Edouardo Garreaud in 1986, to explore new...
- Object ID: issw-1990-049-062.pdf
- Keywords: computerized system, forecasting, snow-meteorological, snowpack, avalanche activity
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- Title: Avalanche Control Ropeways Coquihalla Highway Avalanche Safety Program
- Date: 1988
- Authors: J.R. Stevens
- Description: Two avalanche control ropeways were constructed as part of the avalanche safety program for the Coquihalla Highway. The contract for the construction ...
- Object ID: issw-1988-011-015.pdf
- Keywords: ropeways, technology, drive systems, explosive
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- Title: Recent Improvements in CATEX (Avalanche Control Ropeway) Technology
- Date: 1988
- Authors: Gilles Borrel
- Description: The purpose of this paper is double. First, we present the device to people who don't know it. Then, we show the answers that have been brought to imp...
- Object ID: issw-1988-016-022.pdf
- Keywords: catex, safety, electronics, igniters
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- Title: Steps Toward Computer-Aided Snow Safety
- Date: 1988
- Authors: R. A. Schmidt, Hal Hartman
- Description: Applications of small computers in snow safety and avalanche forecasting can be divided into categories like (a) compiling weather and snowpack histor...
- Object ID: issw-1988-069-072.pdf
- Keywords: safety, forecasting, computer, snowpack, snow data, wind speed
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- Title: The Susan Jane Avalanche Path: A Case Study in Ski Area Planning and Avalanche Path Identification
- Date: 1988
- Authors: Chester Marler, Ann Fin
- Description: Some of the planning efforts for a ski area expansion project are studied, identifying aspects of the planning process which related to potential aval...
- Object ID: issw-1988-098-102.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, hazard, ski area
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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: Development of the Avalanche Management Program for the Coquihalla Highway
- Date: 1988
- Authors: Jack D. Bennetto
- Description: This paper discusses the evolution of the avalanche management program for the Coquihalla Highway, a freeway opened in 1986, which transects a mountai...
- Object ID: issw-1988-229-231.pdf
- Keywords: safety, highway, management program, avalanche, design, construction
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- Title: Offpiste Skiing in France: Recent Evolution, Avalanches Accidents - Forest Preservation
- Date: 1986
- Authors: Francois Valla
- Description: Off piste ski, in France, is a type of ski practiced in "wild snow" out of the ski runs of the ski areas. We examine the avalanche accidents for the p...
- Object ID: issw-1986-013-016.pdf
- Keywords: wild snow, accidents, competition
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