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- Title: Know Before You Go: Adapting Youth Avalanche Education for Alaska
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Sean Fallon, Eeva Latosuo
- Description: Increased accessibility and snow sports media expose more youth to dangerous avalanche terrain than ever before. Standard avalanche education has fail...
- Object ID: issw-2012-788-794.pdf
- Keywords: youth, avalanche education, avalanche awareness, know before you go, alaska, alaska avalanche school
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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: Incorporating Terrain into Public Avalanche Information Products
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Karl Klassen
- Description: Public avalanche information has traditionally focussed on avalanche forecasts that provide avalanche danger ratings and contain information about wea...
- Object ID: issw-2012-209-213.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecast, public safety, avalanche hazard, avalanche skills, snowpack conditions
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- Title: Yukon Avalanche Association - The First Year and the Future
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Michael Smith, Eirik Sharp
- Description: The Yukon Avalanche Association (YAA) was formed in 2010 with the goal of promoting avalanche safety and awareness to an expanding group of backcountr...
- Object ID: issw-2012-214-219.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, terrains, winter backcountry recreation, canadian avalanche centre
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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: Who Is Involved In Avalanche Accidents?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Benjamin Zweifel, Frank Techel, Christian Björk
- Description: Off-piste and backcountry skiers, snow-shoers, climbers, heli-skiers, hikers, ski patrollers and many more: The range of people who are involved in av...
- Object ID: issw-2012-234-239.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche accident statistics, human factors
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- Title: Skiers, Trees and Avalanches: A Murderous Triad
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Dale Atkins
- Description: Many skiers and snowboarders perceive treed slopes as less dangerous during periods of unstable snow. In recent years a growing number of accidents ha...
- Object ID: issw-2012-736-739.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, accident, fatalities, trees, skier, pedestrian, collisions, motor vehicles
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- Title: Avalanche Education in the United States: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Date: 2012
- Authors: David W. Lovejoy
- Description: Avalanche education in the USA has a long and colorful history punctuated by many of the most notable and endearing personalities on our field. Howeve...
- Object ID: issw-2012-814-819.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche history, ski patrolling, avalanche hazard
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- Title: Adherence to Risk Prevention and Safety Measures in Backcountry Winter Recreationists
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Procter E., Strapazzon G., Staffler HP, Preindl A., Seebacher F., Castlunger L., Ebner I., Brugger H.
- Description: Rapid extrication within 10-20 minutes of complete avalanche burial is essential for survival (Haegeli et al. 2011). Safety equipment, along with basi...
- Object ID: issw-2012-827-830.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche burial, backcountry, avalanche risk, avalanche safety equipment
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- Title: Surface Hoar Distribution at the Scale of a Helicopter Skiing Operation
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Matthew Borish, Karl W. Birkeland, Stephan Custer, Stuart Challender, Jordy Hendrikx
- Description: Understanding what controls coarse scale snowpack properties, such as surface hoar distribution, is imperative for predicting snow avalanches. Due in ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-1040-1046.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack, surface hoar, spatial variability, weak layers
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- Title: Internet and Social Networking: A Chance for Avalanche Education?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Thierry Vallée
- Description: Community websites about backcountry skiing are the places where avalanches are
discussed. Beginners can learn, experienced people and professionals ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-381-386.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry recreationists, weather measurments, public safety
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- Title: @Utahavalanche: Was Social Media Invented for Avalanche Forecasting?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Diegel, P D , M.S., M.B.A, Tremper, B, M.S.
- Description: Social Media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, etc) provide an effective way to broadcast avalanche information. Content can be created an...
- Object ID: issw-2012-387-391.pdf
- Keywords: back country, public safety, avalanche awareness
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- Title: Post-Control Avalanches: Definition, History, Causes and the Future
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Michael Ferrari
- Description: At developed ski areas the term post-control avalanches generally has been used to
describe avalanches that occur after mitigation measures have been...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-047.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, ski areas, explosives, investigate
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- Title: New Mobile and Web-Based Services for Backcountry Skiers
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Jan Eckert, Christoph Suter
- Description: The WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF developed White Risk mobile, an IPhone-application which was presented at the ISSW-Europe 2009 i...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-034.pdf
- Keywords: prevention, planning, service-design, interface-design
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