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- Title: Snow Immersion Suffocation- The Silent Killer at Ski Areas
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Paul Baugher
- Description: From 1990/91 to 2011/12, there have been sixty-four Snow Immersion Suffocation (SIS) cases reported at U.S. ski areas. Comparing inherent risks at ski...
- Object ID: issw-2012-220-226.pdf
- Keywords: snow immersion, suffocation, sis, narsid, ski area, risk management, ski safety, skier education
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- Title: The MLK Event At Crystal Mountain
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Christopher C. Morin
- Description: The winter of 2010/2011 created a surprisingly widespread weak layer across the
northwestern United States. In Washington state it became to be known...
- Object ID: issw-2012-240-243.pdf
- Keywords: snowfall, crusts, avalanche cycles, helicopter bombing
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- Title: Partner Rescue Skills: An Organizational and Individual Assessment Over the 2010-11 and 2011-12 Winter Seasons at Big Sky Resort
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Jonathan Binger, Chelan Babineau-Z
- Description: Avalanche hazard mitigation work is one of the more hazardous aspects of professional ski patrolling. Ski patrollers rely almost entirely on their par...
- Object ID: issw-2012-783-785.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard, avalanche rescue and survival, ski patrolling
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- Title: Educating Ski Patrollers at Chimbulak (Shymbulak) Ski Resort, Kazakhstan
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Alexander Prokop, Peter Dirninger
- Description: Chimbulak ski resort, located close to the former capital city of Kazakhstan, Almaty, has challenging preconditions to make their resort avalanche saf...
- Object ID: issw-2012-831-833.pdf
- Keywords: ski patrolling, avalanche risk management, artificially triggered, snow control
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- Title: New Public Avalanche Awareness Opportunities - Are You Beeping?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Scott R. Waller, Andy Hill, Dick Willy
- Description: As members of Cascade Backcountry Ski Patrol (CBSP) and the Ski Patrol Rescue Team (SPART) of King Country Search and Rescue, we strive to increase av...
- Object ID: issw-2012-848-854.pdf
- Keywords: search and rescue, avalanche awareness, avalanche beacon
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- Title: An Experimental Investigation of Explosives and Snowpack Dynamic Response
- Date: 2010
- Authors: R.G. Tichota, D.A. Miller, R. Larson, D. Richmond
- Description: Explosives are frequently used for avalanche control in public transportation corridors and within ski area boundaries, yet there has been little rese...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-016.pdf
- Keywords: explosives, snowpack, public transportation
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- Title: Potential Impacts of Climate Change or U.S. Wastach Range Ski Areas: Projections for Park City Mountain Resort in 2030, 2050, and 2075
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Brian Lazar, Mark W. Williams
- Description: We evaluate the potential impacts to snow coverage and depth from anthropogenic climate change at Park City Mountain Resort in 2030, 2050, and 2075. S...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-023.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, snow, park city, ski areas, general circulation models, wasatch
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- Title: Potential Changes in the Frequency of Rain-On-Snow Events for U.S. Cascades Ski Areas As A Result of Climate Change: Projections for Mt Bachelor, Oregon in the 21rst Century
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Brian Lazar, Mark W. Williams
- Description: We evaluate how climate change resulting from increased greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions may affect the frequency of rain-on-snow events at Mt. Bachelo...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-024.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, rain-on-snow, avalanches, mt bachelor, ski areas, cascades
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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting for Large Area Mechanized Ski Guiding
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Mike Wiegele
- Description: It is a given that practitioners need to provide a safe and enjoyable experience to their clients, they also have a legal responsibility to provide a ...
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- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ski guiding, avalanche danger, five step method
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- Title: Information Value of the Avalanche Bulletin for Snowsports
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Florian Hellberg, Chris Semmel, Paul Mair
- Description: Unavailable
- Object ID: issw-2009-0605.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche bulletin, pictograms, ski touring study
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- Title: Skisim - A Tool to Assess the Impact of Climate Change on Ski Season Length and Snowmaking
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Robert Steiger
- Description: A semi-distributed ski season simulation model (“SkiSimâ€) was developed to analyze potential impacts of climate change on ski season lengt...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0239-0243.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, snowmaking, ski tourism, austria
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- Title: First Experiences in Applying the Swiss ‘Guideline to Account for Avalanche Hazard of Ropeways in Ski Areas’
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Mark Schaer, Stefan Margreth
- Description: Ropeways in ski areas are often exposed to avalanches. The new ropeway guideline fixes principles and procedures how to account for avalanche and snow...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0413-0417.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, avalanche defence, snow pressure, ropeway
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- Title: Climate Change in Western Ski Areas: Timing of Wet Avalanches in Aspen Ski Area in the Years 2030 and 2100
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Brian Lazar, Mark Williams
- Description: We evaluate how climate change resulting from increased greenhouse gas emissions may affect the timing of wet avalanches at Aspen Mountain in the year...
- Object ID: issw-2006-899-906.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, wet avalanches, aspen, ski areas, gcm
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- Title: March Wet Avalanche Prediction at Bridger Bowl Ski Area, Montana
- Date: 2004
- Authors: J.M. Romig, S.G. Custer, K. Birkeland, W.W. Locke
- Description: Few avalanche forecast models are tailored specifically for wet avalanche forecasting. Bridger Bowl (intermountain climate) is a good area to develop ...
- Object ID: ISSW-2004-010.pdf
- Keywords: wet snow, avalanche, probability, forecast, model
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- Title: Melt-Induced Deformation in an Isothermal Snowpack
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Simon A. Trautman, Stephan G. Custer, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Bridger Bowl Ski Area outside of Bozeman, MT, USA, has encountered annual problems forecasting large, wet loose avalanches that occur during warming e...
- Object ID: ISSW-2004-011.pdf
- Keywords: loose avalanche, hazard, deformation
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