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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: How Mountain Snowmobilers Adjust Their Riding Preferences in Response to Avalanche Hazard Information Available at Different Stages of Backcountry Trips
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Luke Strong-Cvetich, Wolfgang Haider
- Description: Over the last five winters, mountain snowmobilers accounted for 53% (41 of 77) of all recreational avalanche fatalities in Canada, which is a signific...
- Object ID: issw-2012-800-806.pdf
- Keywords: mountain snowmobiling, avalanche hazard information, decision making, terrain choices, discrete choice experiment
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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: How Do You Stress the Snowpack?
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Scott Thumlert, Bruce Jamieson, Thomas Exner
- Description: In the majority of fatal avalanches, skiers and snowmobilers apply load to the
snowpack which triggers the initial failure in a weak layer. Understan...
- Object ID: issw-2012-506-512.pdf
- Keywords: dynamic stress, localized dynamic loading, snowmobile, snow stability, avalanche forecasting, snowpack stratigraphy
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- Title: Lessons Learned From Boulder Mountain
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Mary Clayton
- Description: The largest recreational avalanche accident in Canadian history occurred on March 13, 2010, on Boulder Mountain, just outside of Revelstoke, BC. This ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-513-515.pdf
- Keywords: recreational avalanche data , avalanche danger degree, snomobiles
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- Title: A Phase-Tracking Snow Micro-Structure Model
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Andrew E. Slaughter, Nicholas Zabaras
- Description: Depending on the thermal conditions, snow metamorphoses via two processes: kinetic or equilibrium metamorphism. Kinetic growth occurs due to temperatu...
- Object ID: issw-2012-395-397.pdf
- Keywords: snow metamorphism, kinetic growth, thermistors
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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: 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: Heading Beyond the Gates: Who is Most at Risk of Getting Involved in Avalanche Incidents Out-of-Bounds?
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Matt Gunn, Pascal Haegeli, Wolfgang Haider
- Description: The popularity of out-of-bounds skiing and snowboarding has been growing steadily over the last decade despite the avalanche risk inherent to the acti...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-047.pdf
- Keywords: out-of-bounds skiing, multidimensional risk assessment, sensation seeking scale, selfefficacy, risk communication
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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: Simple Calculations of Avalanche Risk for Backcountry Skiing
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Jürg Schweizer, Cora Shea
- Description: The avalanche risk from backcountry skiing and its dependence on the regional danger ratings have not been estimated—notably in North America. ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0336-0340.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk, backcountry skiing, comparative risk, skier-triggering, regional avalanche danger
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