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- Title: Precision Blasting Techniques for Avalanche Control
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Kevin M Powell
- Description: Experimental firings sponsored by the Center For Snow Science at Alta, Utah have
demonstrated the potential of a unique prototype shaped charge devic...
- Object ID: issw-2000-325-332.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, explosives, blasting, shaped charges, artillery
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- Title: Overview of the 1999 Measurements at the SLF Test-Site Vallee De La Sionne
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Francois Dufour, Urs Gruber, Perry Bartelt, Walter J. Ammann
- Description: Three large avalanches were artificially triggered on January 30th, February 10th and February 25th 1999, at the Vallee de la Sionne test site of the ...
- Object ID: issw-2000-527-534.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche deposits, avalanche dynamics, avalanche modelling, avalanche velocities, impact forces, avalanche experiments, avalanche forces
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- Title: How To Run An Avalanche Course When You Have No Snow - A Peculiarly Scottish Perspective
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Steve Blagbrough
- Description: Scotland can be an exasperating place to run avalanche education courses. One day
you can be wading around in thigh deep, highly unstable wind slab. ...
- Object ID: issw-2000-551-553.pdf
- Keywords: snowpack, avalanche instructors, teaching methods, maritime climate
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- Title: Avalanche Control in the Brooks Range of Alaska an Environment of Extremes
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Reid Bahnson
- Description: In 1974 the Dalton Highway was built north of Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, AK. along the route of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline being constructed at the time...
- Object ID: issw-1998-008-012.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche triggering, slushflows, snow melt and run-off
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- Title: Photographic Studies of Slab Avalanches in Heather Canyon, Mt. Hood, Oregon
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Todd Semmes
- Description: The avalanche control program for Heather Canyon-a large avalanche-prone canyon in the Mt Hood Meadows permit area-is reviewed. To help illustrate the...
- Object ID: issw-1998-013.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, avalanche tracks, avalanche types, snow slides
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- Title: Economic Benefits of Large Volume ANFO Airblasts in Avalanche Control at Alpental
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Jon Barker
- Description: The implementation of tram delivery systems in combination with larger volumes of ANFO as the detonating charge has drastically changed the structure ...
- Object ID: issw-1998-022.pdf
- Keywords: ammunition, explosives, terrain, artillery
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- Title: Alternative Risk Management; Fat Man, Utile Boy and the Winch Roller
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Craig Sterbenz
- Description: "Slope compaction and deep slab instability; alternative avalanche risk management: In
recent years, ski area expansion into 'extreme' avalanche terr...
- Object ID: issw-1998-348-351.pdf
- Keywords: snow compaction, snow cover stability, avalanche counter measures, snow vehicles
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- Title: The Alpine Meadows Road Avalanches, Real Estate and Politics
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Larry Heywood, Norm Wilson
- Description: This case study will review the history of the avalanche problems effecting the
Alpine Meadows Road and the resulting legal and political ramificatio...
- Object ID: issw-1998-432-438.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, avalanche protection, avalanche zoning
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- Title: Avalanches and Liability (A Case Study of Avalanche Control in a Highway Setting, and the Result When Reminded That Mother Nature is Ultimately in Charge)
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Mike Stanford, Michael Shinn, Debbie Galespi
- Description: As long as people have built roads through the mountains, there has been the threat of Avalanches. As each highway is built, the Avalanche problems of...
- Object ID: issw-1998-439-446.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, starting zones, snow slide
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- Title: The New Westwide Avalanche Network
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Bruce Tremper, Dan Judd, Daniel Howlett, Randy Trover, Mark Moore, Dale Atkins, Kevin Heineken
- Description: The Westwide Avalanche Network is an Internet computer site expressly designed for the professional avalanche community. It allows avalanche professio...
- Object ID: issw-1996-041-043.pdf
- Keywords: westwide, avalanche, internet, computer
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- Title: The New Avalanche Control Programme at the Lake Louise Ski Area
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Mark Klassen
- Description: Avalanche control operations at the Lake Louise Ski Area have a history spanning nearly thirty years. Originally a small resort which did not extend a...
- Object ID: issw-1996-213-216.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, ski area, management
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- Title: Further Studies on the Influence of the GAZ-EX on a Continental Snowpack, Glory Bowl Slide Path, Teton Pass, Wyoming
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Kelly Elder, Rod Newcomb
- Description: The study is centered on three GAZ-EX installations on Teton Pass, Wyoming. The results reported here support the previous conclusions of Elder and Ne...
- Object ID: issw-1996-285-287.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, gal-ex, ram resistance
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- Title: New Long Range Control Methods
- Date: 1996
- Authors: Marty Schmoker, Mike Stanford
- Description: With the depletion of 105, and 75 mm recoilless ammunition over the last few years, and the recent accident involving the 106 recoilless rifle ammunit...
- Object ID: issw-1996-288-294.pdf
- Keywords: howitzer, recoilless rifle, tank
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- Title: Remote Identification of Precipitation Type
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Sue A. Ferguson, Steve Breyfogle
- Description: The results of a 2-year project to investigate the feasibility of automatically detecting precipitation type for highway hazard reduction programs in ...
- Object ID: issw-1994-222-259.pdf
- Keywords: precipitation, avalanche control, snow strength, avalanche hazard
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- Title: History of Professional Ski Patrolling in the Western United States
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Scott Toepfer
- Description: As ski areas became more and more popular during the 1940's and 1950's, ski area management became increasingly aware of the need for full-time, well-...
- Object ID: issw-1994-423-430.pdf
- Keywords: ski trails, ski areas, ski patrolling, ski management
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