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Title: Trend Analysis of Canadian Avalanche Accidents: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card Has Not Reduced the Number of Accidents
Date: 2009
Authors: Bob Uttl, Mekale Kibreab, Kelly Kisinger, Jan Uttl
Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card (Haegeli & McCammon, 2006), a Canadian government avalanche prevention initiative, was designed to h...
Object ID: issw-2009-0610-0613.pdf
Keywords: avaluator, obvious clues, avalanche accident trends, avalanche fatalities
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Title: Avalanche Fatalities in California's Sierra Nevada, Winters 1987-2008
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Randall Osterhuber
Description: This paper analyzes the 17 avalanche fatalities in the Sierra Nevada of California during 22 winters, 1987 through 2008. The avalanche deaths are eval...
Object ID: P__8040.pdf
Keywords: avalanche fatality, avalanche death
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Title: Developments in Avalanche Forecasting and Other Prevention Measures and their Potential Effects on Avalanche Fatalities
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Hans-Juerg Etter, Thomas Stucki, Benjamin Zweifel, Christine Pielmeier
Description: Despite the ever-increasing attractions of backcountry and off-piste winter sports as well as the ever more heavily frequented mountain routes in Swit...
Object ID: P__8245.pdf
Keywords: prevention, avalanche forecasting, avalanche fatalities
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Title: Enso and Avalanche Fatalities: Is there a Correlation?
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Mark Moore
Description: Preliminary statistical evidence suggests that some correlation may exist between ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) events and annual North Ameri...
Object ID: P__8068.pdf
Keywords: weather, snowpack evolution, avalanche fatality, snowpack structure, character of the winter
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Title: Fatal Avalanche Accidents and Forecasted Danger Levels: Patterns in the United States, Canada, Switzerland and France
Date: 2006
Authors: Ethan Greene, Thomas Wiesinger, Karl Birkeland, Cécile Coléou, Alan Jones, Grant Statham
Description: Throughout the winter, avalanche forecasters issue bulletins to help the public and the managers of public facilities make avalanche safety decisions....
Object ID: issw-2006-640-649.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche danger, avalanche forecasting
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Title: A History of Colorado Avalanche Accidents, 1859–2006
Date: 2006
Authors: Dale Atkins
Description: The combination of snow and mountains, and man’s pursuit of economic development have sometimes resulted in deadly consequences for those who l...
Object ID: issw-2006-287-297.pdf
Keywords: colorado, avalanche accidents, avalanche fatalities, mining, tourism
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Title: A History of Mitigation and Operational Forecasting on Red Mountain Pass, Colorado
Date: 2006
Authors: Jerry Roberts, Mark Rikkers, Noel Pete Peterson
Description: The San Juan Mountains are an abrupt and youthful mountain range notorious for a very fragile and unstable continental snowpack. In the 19th century, ...
Object ID: issw-2006-304.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, fatalities, safety, transportation
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Title: Risk Trends at U.S. and British Columbia Ski Areas: An Evaluation of the Risk of Snow Immersion Versus Avalanche Burials
Date: 2006
Authors: Paul Baugher
Description: The risk trends for avalanche and snow accidents at U.S. and B.C. ski areas are changing. During the period from 1990/91 to 2005/06, there were four a...
Object ID: issw-2006-584-591.pdf
Keywords: snow immersion, avalanche fatalities, narsid, ski area, risk management
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Title: Challenges to an Avalanche Center in a Time of Seasonal Climate Variability: A Case Study
Date: 2006
Authors: David W. Lovejoy, Leland R. Dexter, Kevin Tatsugawa
Description: Kachina Peaks (San Francisco Peaks) rising to nearly 13,000 ft. in northern Arizona represent an exception to the commonly held perception that snow a...
Object ID: issw-2006-683-690.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanche forecasting, san francisco peaks, kpac, backcountry skiing
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Title: Legal Consequences of Fatal Avalanche Accidents in the European Alps
Date: 2006
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Stephan Harvey
Description: If a fatal avalanche occurs in an Alpine country such as France, Italy, Austria, Germany or Switzerland the circumstances need to be investigated by l...
Object ID: issw-2006-709-713.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, law, litigation, criminal proceedings
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Title: Winter 2003 in Southern BC – Perspective, Recognition, Management
Date: 2006
Authors: Chris Stethem, Marc Piché
Description: The winter of 2002-03 began with the formation of a rain crust in November, followed by an extended period of fair weather and the development of a pe...
Object ID: issw-2006-742-746.pdf
Keywords: accidents, below average snowpacks, winter mountain travel, mechanized skiing
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Title: Avalanche Risk Management in Backcountry Skiing Operations
Date: 2004
Authors: Harpa Grímsdóttir, David McClung
Description: Over the last 34 years Canada has had an average of 11 avalanche fatalities per year and during the past five years this average has increased to 16 ...
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Keywords: risk, skiing, fatalities, terrain
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Title: A History of Avalanche Accidents in Aotearoa New Zealand
Date: 2004
Authors: Dave Irwin, Ian Owens
Description: This paper is based on a study for the New Zealand Mountain Safety Council which investigated the circumstances contributing to the deaths of 128 peo...
Object ID: issw-2004-484-491.pdf
Keywords: fatalities, new zealand, avalanche victim activities
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Title: Organizational Implications of Avalanche Fatalities
Date: 2002
Authors: Steve Blake
Description: Avalanche fatalities have far reaching implications beyond the scope of what many individuals and organizations consider. On January 13, 2002 National...
Object ID: issw-2002-221-224.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche accidents, fatality, investigations
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Title: Sleds and Sledders a Quick Look
Date: 2002
Authors: Darcy Svederus/Snowtec Services
Description: With the number of avalanche deaths in recent years claiming more snowmobilers than any other sport it's time we take a look at the sport and its peop...
Object ID: issw-2002-261-265.pdf
Keywords: sled, snowmobilers, avalanche, fatalities
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