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- Title: Avalanche Rescue: The United States Experience, 1999/00 to 2008/09
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Dale Atkins
- Description: Avalanche accidents and fatalities have been increasing over the years, and experience continues to show time as the enemy of the buried avalanche vic...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-057.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, incident, rescue, self rescue, companion rescue, organized rescue, injuries, deaths
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- Title: Under the Radar: Exploiting “New School†Media to Capture Unreported Avalanche Incidents
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Bruce Edgerly
- Description: Unless you’re a sheriff or coroner, it’s not easy getting details on avalanche incidents. Many success stories go unreported, skewing pu...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-060.pdf
- Keywords: unreported, media capture, fatalities, shoveling
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- Title: Monitoring Diurnal Near-Surface Faceting
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Brett Kobernik, Wendy Wagner
- Description: Near-surface faceting produces weak snow grains at or near the snow surface and
once buried has the potential to form weak layers in the snowpack str...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-010.pdf
- Keywords: near-surface faceting, snowpack structure, fatalities, ibuttons
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- Title: Evaluation of the Avaluator Decision-Support Tool for Canadian Accidents: 1997-2009
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Dave Gauthier
- Description: The Avaluatorâ„¢ is a rule-based avalanche decision-support tool for amateur backcountry recreationists, published by the Canadian Avalanche Centr...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-036.pdf
- Keywords: fatalities, avalanche accidents, avaluator decision, canadian avalanche centre, trip planner
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- Title: A Recipe for Widespread Persistent Deep Slab Avalanche Characteristics in Western Canada
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Cam Campbell, Matt MacDonald
- Description: Of the 29 avalanche fatalities during the avalanche season of 2002-03 in western Canada, at least 14 were attributed to persistent deep slab avalanche...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-059.pdf
- Keywords: slab avalanche, fatalities, snowpack, weather conditions
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- Title: Ten Years of Avalanche Deaths in the United States, 1999/00 to 2008/09
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Dale Atkins
- Description: After reaching a twenty-year low in the late 1980s avalanche deaths in the United States soared during the 1990s and spiked in 2007/08 with 36 deaths,...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-089.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, avalanche accident, avalanche fatalities, united states
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- Title: Trend Analysis of Canadian Avalanche Accidents: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card Has Not Reduced the Number of Accidents
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Bob Uttl, Mekale Kibreab, Kelly Kisinger, Jan Uttl
- Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card (Haegeli & McCammon, 2006), a
Canadian government avalanche prevention initiative, was designed to h...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0610-0613.pdf
- Keywords: avaluator, obvious clues, avalanche accident trends, avalanche fatalities
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- Title: Avalanche Fatalities in California's Sierra Nevada, Winters 1987-2008
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Randall Osterhuber
- Description: This paper analyzes the 17 avalanche fatalities in the Sierra Nevada of California during 22 winters, 1987 through 2008. The avalanche deaths are eval...
- Object ID: P__8040.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche fatality, avalanche death
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- Title: Developments in Avalanche Forecasting and Other Prevention Measures and their Potential Effects on Avalanche Fatalities
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Hans-Juerg Etter, Thomas Stucki, Benjamin Zweifel, Christine Pielmeier
- Description: Despite the ever-increasing attractions of backcountry and off-piste winter sports as well as the ever more heavily frequented mountain routes in Swit...
- Object ID: P__8245.pdf
- Keywords: prevention, avalanche forecasting, avalanche fatalities
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- Title: Enso and Avalanche Fatalities: Is there a Correlation?
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Mark Moore
- Description: Preliminary statistical evidence suggests that some correlation may exist between ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) events and annual North Ameri...
- Object ID: P__8068.pdf
- Keywords: weather, snowpack evolution, avalanche fatality, snowpack structure, character of the winter
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- Title: Fatal Avalanche Accidents and Forecasted Danger Levels: Patterns in the United States, Canada, Switzerland and France
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Ethan Greene, Thomas Wiesinger, Karl Birkeland, Cécile Coléou, Alan Jones, Grant Statham
- Description: Throughout the winter, avalanche forecasters issue bulletins to help the public and the managers of public facilities make avalanche safety decisions....
- Object ID: issw-2006-640-649.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche danger, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: A History of Colorado Avalanche Accidents, 1859–2006
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Dale Atkins
- Description: The combination of snow and mountains, and man’s pursuit of economic development have sometimes resulted in deadly consequences for those who l...
- Object ID: issw-2006-287-297.pdf
- Keywords: colorado, avalanche accidents, avalanche fatalities, mining, tourism
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- Title: A History of Mitigation and Operational Forecasting on Red Mountain Pass, Colorado
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Jerry Roberts, Mark Rikkers, Noel Pete Peterson
- Description: The San Juan Mountains are an abrupt and youthful mountain range notorious for a very fragile and unstable continental snowpack. In the 19th century, ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-304.pdf
- Keywords: forecasting, fatalities, safety, transportation
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- Title: Risk Trends at U.S. and British Columbia Ski Areas: An Evaluation of the Risk of Snow Immersion Versus Avalanche Burials
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Paul Baugher
- Description: The risk trends for avalanche and snow accidents at U.S. and B.C. ski areas are changing. During the period from 1990/91 to 2005/06, there were four a...
- Object ID: issw-2006-584-591.pdf
- Keywords: snow immersion, avalanche fatalities, narsid, ski area, risk management
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- Title: Legal Consequences of Fatal Avalanche Accidents in the European Alps
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Stephan Harvey
- Description: If a fatal avalanche occurs in an Alpine country such as France, Italy, Austria, Germany or Switzerland the circumstances need to be investigated by l...
- Object ID: issw-2006-709-713.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, law, litigation, criminal proceedings
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