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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: Avalanche Awareness Raising in Finland - Development of Avalanche Education Curricula
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Eeva Mäkelä, Jussi Muittari, Kai Lehtonen
- Description: Finland is a country of 5.4 million inhabitants in Northern Europe. Backcountry skiing and free skiing have gained popularity over the past 10 years a...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.38.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche awareness, finland
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- Title: Two Decades of a Winter Backcountry Permit System - is This the 'Right' Tool to Encourage Avalanche Awareness, Education, and Responsibility?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Patrick M. McGervey
- Description: In Arizona, the Kachina Peaks rise to an elevation of over 3,800 meters providing a stark contrast to a relatively flat and arid landscape below. Slop...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.40.pdf
- Keywords: permit system, education, public safety
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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: The ‘Optimal Skiing Day’: The Future of Ski Resorts Under Climate Change Conditions
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmude
- Description: The purpose of this presentation is to implement and apply a model permitting to identify and assess the most economical days of a skiing season in or...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-27.pdf
- Keywords: climate change, skiing tourism, profitability, modeling, christmas-easter-shift
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- Title: Recreational Avalanche Accidents in Switzerland: Trends and Patterns With an Emphasis on Burial, Rescue Methods and Avalanche Danger
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Frank Techel, Benjamin Zweifel
- Description: During the last 20 years (1992/93 to 2011/12) more than 90% of the avalanche fatalities in Switzerland occurred in uncontrolled avalanche terrain (rec...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-08.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche survival, mortality, rescue methods
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- Title: Formation de Verglas Sur la Neige
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Dominique Vrécourt
- Description: During January 2012, 2 to 5cm of ice appeared on the top of snow layer of the Pyrénées between 2000 to 2800m. That ice took place during two wee...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-25.pdf
- Keywords: ice
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- Title: Implications Juridiques des Accidents en Montagne et Investigations Médicolégales
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: François PAYSANT, Frédérique FIECHTER BOULVARD, Florian GRENIER, V.SCOLAN
- Description: The mountains especially during snow period is the place of accidents, some of which are fatal. In a first approach explanations of accidents may seem...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-42.pdf
- Keywords: mountains accidents, legal investigation, responsibility
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- Title: Wave of Avalanche Disasters in Response to Colonization: A Century of Statistics from the World’s Deadliest Avalanche-Prone Islands
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Evgeny A. Podolskiy, Kaoru Izumi, Vladimir E. Suchkov, IRSTEA (UR ETGR), St.-Martin-d'Heres, France
- Description: The record of avalanche disasters on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands was always incomplete due to the historical divide of the region between Japan and...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-43.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, fatalities, disaster, statistics, sakhalin, kuril islands
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- Title: An Extraordinary Avalanche Winter in Troms, Norway - Special Avalanche Conditions – and the Tromdalen Avalanche Disaster
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Ragnar Glomseth, Tor André Skjelbakken, Knut Fredriksen
- Description: This winter (12/13) was one of the most challenging ever for the regional avalanche rescue team in Tromsø, Norway, with (per 26 April) a total of 1...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-47.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, rescue, accident
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- Title: Formation Des Moniteurs de Ski au Hors-Piste
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Horspiste
- Description: Nos montagnes offrent un formidable terrain de jeux aux mille facettes. Elles sont créatrices d’une sensation de liberté inégalable. C...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-12.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, skiing
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- Title: Risk Appraisal and Decision Making in Front of Avalanche Risk: A Pilot Study With Backcountry Skiers
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Andres Chamarro, Gloria Marti, Tatiana Rovira, Francesc Carola, Jordi Fernández-Castro
- Description: Studies and knowledge of human factor in avalanche fatalities are scarce or even null in the study area. Consequently, research into how people evalua...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-30.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, risk appraisal, decision-making
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- Title: Practitioners View on Quick Study of Snowpack: How to Explain the Vocabulary for Pole Probe Tests and Slope Cutting
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Theo Meiners, Kim Grant, Sam Sehnert, Matt Belford, Jessica Baker, Robb Maris, Aidan Meiners, Craig Fischer, Nicholas Houfek, Josh Pope, AJ Sanders, Mike Trombetta, Dan Janjigian, Sam Green
- Description: As practitioners and heli-ski guides in the Chugach Mountains of Valdez, Alaska we ski cut slopes to mitigate the volume of loose snow avalanches (slu...
- Object ID: issw-2012-023-027.pdf
- Keywords: sluff, helicopter skiing, snowpack structure, snowpack properties,snowslope stability
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- Title: Avalanche Forecasting for Safe Travel in the Backcountry: The 5-Step Checklist
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Mike Wiegele
- Description: Operators and ski guides are in-field practitioners with a responsibility to provide a safe and enjoyable experience for clients and employees. As pra...
- Object ID: issw-2012-157-160.pdf
- Keywords: back country, snowpack stability, avalanche awareness, solar radiation
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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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