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- Title: Online Systems for Integrating the Safety, Strategy, and Stoke of Backcountry Adventure
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Brian A. Sather, Tesmond Hurd
- Description: The primary focus of avalanche centers is disseminating safety information, guides focus on logistics and client care, retailers and product manufactu...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.19.pdf
- Keywords: technology, multi-media, website, content management system, cms
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- Title: Avalanche Awareness at the Jackson Hole High School
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Sarah Carpenter, Trevor Deighton
- Description: Each year, more young skiers, riders, and snowmobilers are accessing the backcountry. For the past 12 years, the American Avalanche Institute has been...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, youth education, wyoming
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- Title: Teenagers in the Backcountry: a Study of Use and Education from the Perspective of High School Students
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Emery L. Rheam
- Description: Teenagers are using the backcountry increasingly more and more during the winter for a wide range of activities. When growing up in mountain communiti...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.04.pdf
- Keywords: teenagers, avalanche education, youth education
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- Title: Using Time-Lapse Photography to Monitor Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Diana Saly, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Doug Richmond
- Description: On January 14, 2016 an avalanche occurred on the Football Field of Saddle Peak in Southwest Montana. Saddle Peak is a backcountry slope, located immed...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.03.pdf
- Keywords: time-lapse photography, backcountry, case study, terrain use
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- Title: Avalanche Risk in Winter Backcountry Touring: Status and Recent Trends in Switzerland
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kurt Winkler, Adrian Fischer, Frank Techel
- Description: Avalanches are the major cause of accidental death while recreating in the mountains during winter. Up to now the calculation of the statistical risk ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk, backcountry touring, snowshoe hiking, mortality rate
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- Title: Understanding Global Crowd Sourcing Data to Examine Travel Behavior in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: This paper will present a subset of our results from our last three seasons (2013/14 to 2015/16) of global crowd sourced data collection to examine tr...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.06.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry skiing, gps tracking, decision making, avalanche terrain, crowd-sourcing
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- Title: Direct and Indirect Avalanche Experiences Among Backcountry Skiers: Relationships with Risk Perception and Use of Safety Gear
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Davide Marengo, Paola Dellavedova, Maria G. Monaci, Renato Miceli
- Description: A relevant factor that may affect risk perception and behaviors related to natural hazard is personal experience. Findings on recreational sports (e.g...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.10.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche experience, backcountry skiing, risk perception
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- Title: Chasing the Dragon - Can Impulse Control and Addiction Therapies Assist Some Recreational Decision Makers?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mark Kelly
- Description: Recreational backcountry travelers pursue their chosen activities for a variety of reasons. Many of the reasons that recreationalists choose to travel...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.14.pdf
- Keywords: addiction, impulse control, heuristics, decision making
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- Title: Making a Public Backcountry Zone Shared by a Cat Skiing Operation and a Variety of Other Users Safer Through a Simple Awareness Card with Pertinent Information
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Eric R. Tollund
- Description: As backcountry user numbers continue to rise we are seeing more and more unprepared and under equipped users in the backcountry. As a guide with a cat...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.16.pdf
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- Title: Using Crowd-Sourced Data to Understand Usage Patterns of Backcountry Recreational Users
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Ryan Buhler, James Floyer
- Description: Avalanche Canada's Mountain Information Network (MIN) is an online platform that allows users to share real-time information with the backcountry comm...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.21.pdf
- Keywords: public forecasting, crowdsourcing, travel behavior, terrain use, avalanche danger index
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- Title: Utilizing Common Radio Channels in High-Use Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Matt H. Steen, Bruce Edgerly
- Description: Winter backcountry travel is increasingly more popular, especially adjacent to ski areas and common-use trailheads. The increase of winter recreation ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.47.pdf
- Keywords: radio communication, backcountry safety, group management, rescue
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- Title: Avalanche Fatalities in Utah in the Modern Era
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Drew Hardesty
- Description: The Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) has records of Utah avalanche fatalities for the modern era, totaling 116 deaths. For this study, the first avalanche ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.19.pdf
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- Title: Backcountry and Sidecountry Users: an Intercept Survey Approach
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kevin Fitzgerald, Jessica Kay, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: This paper explores the differences in overall preparedness (i.e. equipment, skills, knowledge and awareness) between backcountry, and lift-accessed b...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.29.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, recreation, backcountry, sidecountry
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- Title: Attributes of Avalanche Education Seminar Participants and Trends in the Experience of Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Azusa Degawa
- Description: In the improvement of avalanche safety countermeasures and avalanche education, it is crucial to understand the characteristics of the participants. A...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.31.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche incidents, backcountry users
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- Title: 3-2-1, Dropping! Harnessing Freeride Athletes as Avalanche Ambassadors
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bruce Edgerly
- Description: A study by Kruse et. al. (ISSW 2014) identified peer-to-peer communication as the key to influencing 17-to-30 year-olds riding in lift-accessed backco...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.36.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche awareness, lift-accessed backcountry skiing, sidecountry, freeriding, social media
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