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Title: Safe Haven At Road Sides Near Avalache Prone Sites
Date: 2010
Authors: Árni Jónsson
Description: Snow avalanches cause threat to road traffic in mountainous areas in Iceland in wintertime. One or more vehicles are hit by avalanches every year but ...
Object ID: ISSW_P-049.pdf
Keywords: road traffic, avalanches, avalanche accidents, safe area
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Title: Is Going From Snow Avalanche Analysis to Decision Making Different for Snow Scientists or Practitioners? Overview of the Two Contexts.
Date: 2010
Authors: Séba stien Escande, Dominique Létang
Description: Snow avalanche analysis is needed either for experts to reduce the risk for people and assets at risk or for skiers and alpinists to choose the best w...
Object ID: ISSW_P-050.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche analysis, decision making, snow scientists, snow practitioners, mountain guides
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Title: Localization Map of Avalanche Phenomena (CLPA) and Collection of Eye Witness Accounts: Field Investigation Method, Biases, Alternatives and Limits, Data Quality
Date: 2010
Authors: M. Bonnefoy, S. Cabos, S. Escande, R. Gaucher, X. Pasquier, J.M. Tacnet
Description: A catastrophic avalanche occurred in 1970, killing 39 people in a tourist centre located in the Val d’Isère ski resort, Savoie, France. In r...
Object ID: ISSW_P-051.pdf
Keywords: clpa, eye witness accounts, alps and pyrenees, fatalities, photographic interpretation
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Title: The ABC’s (and D) of Digging: Avalanche Shoveling Distilled to the Basics
Date: 2010
Authors: Bruce Edgerly
Description: It’s not sexy, but it sure saves lives. Over the past four years, shoveling has become an increasingly important aspect of recreational and pro...
Object ID: ISSW_P-052.pdf
Keywords: digging, strategic shoveling, survey, burial, depth
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Title: What’s Next for Snowmobile Specific Avalanche Education?
Date: 2010
Authors: Sean Wisner, Mike Buck, Sarah Carter
Description: Snowmobiling education and outreach is evolving in North America. The Alaska Avalanche Information Center is working to integrate and communicate snow...
Object ID: ISSW_P-053.pdf
Keywords: snowmobile, alaska avalanche information center, slope tests
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Title: American Avalanche Association Memorial List
Date: 2010
Authors: Halsted Morris
Description: The American Avalanche Association’s memorial list is currently comprised of 51 individuals. The criteria for being listed on the memorial list...
Object ID: ISSW_P-054.pdf
Keywords: volunteer capacity, rescue work
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Title: Ethics of Experimenting With People's Lives in Winter Backcountry
Date: 2010
Authors: Bob Uttl, Dylan Smibert, Alain Morin, Gregory Wells, Jan Uttl, Breanne Hamper
Description: The purpose of the Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card, designed by Haegeli and McCammon (2006) and published by the Canadian Avalanche Assoc...
Object ID: ISSW_P-055.pdf
Keywords: ethics, avaluator avalanche accident prevention card, accident prevention, risk reduction tools, risk, decision making
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Title: Dissemination of Avalanche Maps Around French Territory Based on Webmapping
Date: 2010
Authors: Michael Deschatres, Ancelet Estelle, Maldonado Eric, Didier Richard, Laure Barral, Jean-Marc Tacnet, Eckert Nicolas
Description: In recent years the opportunity create web map services, user-friendly and up to date geographic information for very low licensing costs and IT devel...
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Keywords: webmapping, technology
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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: Avalanche Forecasting for Large Area Mechanized Ski Guiding
Date: 2010
Authors: Mike Wiegele
Description: It is a given that practitioners need to provide a safe and enjoyable experience to their clients, they also have a legal responsibility to provide a ...
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Keywords: avalanche forecasting, ski guiding, avalanche danger, five step method
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Title: 2010 Saddle Peak Avalanche: Sidecountry Challenges, Misconceptions, and Lessons
Date: 2010
Authors: Doug Chabot, Mark Staples, Karl Birkeland, Eric Knoff
Description: On February 16th, 2010 a person accidentally kicked off a cornice that triggered a large slide on Saddle Peak immediately outside Bridger Bowl’...
Object ID: ISSW_O-063.pdf
Keywords: cornice, facets, hard slab, slide, safety
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Title: Applied Judgement and Avalanche Information Technology
Date: 2010
Authors: Steven M. Conger
Description: This paper and poster present a component of the larger paper described in the submitted abstract. It describes an avalanche forecasting work process...
Object ID: ISSW_P-065.pdf
Keywords: electronic observation recording, data storage system, methodology, technology, hazard
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Title: Characterizing Wet Slab and Glide Slab Avalanche Occurrence Along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
Date: 2010
Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre, Blase Reardon
Description: Wet slab and glide slab snow avalanches are dangerous and yet can be particularly difficult to predict. Both wet slab and glide slab avalanches are th...
Object ID: ISSW_P-066.pdf
Keywords: wet slab, going to-the-sun road, snotel site, free water, snowpack
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Title: Survey of US Avalanche Centers
Date: 2010
Authors: Garth Ferber, Doug Abromeit
Description: In the fall of 2009 I became interested in when offices are staffed by forecasters at the various centers and what time of day products are issued. In...
Object ID: ISSW_P-068.pdf
Keywords: survey, avalanche centers, forecast, dissemination methods
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Title: Avalanche Warning During Military Field Exercises in Northern Norway
Date: 2010
Authors: Kalle Kronholm, Jo Gunnar Ellevold
Description: Norway frequently hosts the NATO cold weather exercise “Cold Response” in the Northern parts of Norway. Aim of the exercise is to train th...
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Keywords: field exercises, cold response, terrian, climate, avalanche forecasting
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