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- Title: The Effects of Different Methods of Compaction on Snowpack Stability
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Diana Saly, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Stuart Challender, Tom Leonard
- Description: The interaction between snowpack layers determines the snowpack stability. It follows that disrupting layers may improve stability. Ski patrols and gu...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.02.pdf
- Keywords: compaction, snowpack stability, stability test, boot-packing, ski compaction
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- Title: Know Before You Go Revision: an Introductory Tool for Influencing Backcountry Behavior
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Craig Gordon, Paul Diegel, Trent Meisenheimer, Brian Lazar, Ethan Greene, Mary Clayton, Aaron Carlson, Bruce Tremper, Mark Staples, Karl Birkland, Tim Bennett
- Description: The open-source Know Before You Go (KBYG) avalanche awareness program provides a 50 minute introduction to avalanche safety for motorized and non-moto...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O13.01.pdf
- Keywords: awareness, education, introductory, video, school, know before you go
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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: Learning From Authentic Situations – Description of Good Learning Situations in Avalanche Education in Norway
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Vegard Vereide, Odd Lennart Vikene
- Description: Avalanche education is important for professionals that are exposed in avalanche terrain with responsibility for other people's life. In a process to ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.35.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, learning, situation awareness, leadership
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- Title: The White Pass and Yukon Route Avalanche Program, Forecasting and Risk Management for a Historical Railroad
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Bill Glude
- Description: The White Pass and Yukon Route (WPYR) is a narrow gauge railroad built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush. Considered impossible to build by many w...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.48.pdf
- Keywords: railroad, avalanche program, alaska, yukon
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- Title: The Effectiveness of Boot Packing for Snowpack Stabilization
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Matt Wieland, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Depth hoar is a persistent weak layer that is a common instability problem in the snowpack of many areas around the world. Boot packing or compaction ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-993-997.pdf
- Keywords: hoarfrost, weak layer, boot packing, snow density
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- Title: Avalanche Analysis and Management in the Ski Resort Rosa Khutor Regarding the 2014 Sochi Olympics Games
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Fanny Bourjaillat, Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Stefan Margreth, Leonid Andreev, Alexander Boyko, Jean-Luc Vallier
- Description: The 2014 winter Olympics games will take place in Russia near Sochi in the Caucasus
Mountains. Several sites have been retained there: both close to ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-134-141.pdf
- Keywords: olympics games, avalanche study, avalanche management
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- Title: Avalanche Accident Risk Reduction Tools in a North American Context
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Bob Uttl, Joanna McDouall, Christina Mitchell, Carmela A. White
- Description: Over the last decade, a number of avalanche risk reduction tools have been developed to assist recreational winter backcountry users avoid avalanche a...
- Object ID: issw-2012-834-839.pdf
- Keywords: accident prevention, risk reduction tools, risk, decision making
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- Title: Public Avalanche Forecast Challenges: Canada’s Large Data-Sparse Regions
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Ilya Storm
- Description: The Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) provides regional avalanche forecasts to
recreational backcountry users for large areas in western Canada. This p...
- Object ID: issw-2012-908-912.pdf
- Keywords: canadian avalanche centre, network systems, public safety
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- Title: Avalanche Risk Reduction in the Continental Climate: How to Implement an Effective Boot Packing Program
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Karen R. Sahn
- Description: Ski resorts in the continental climate are challenged with safely opening steep terrain early season. Providing a skiable product with timeliness corr...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-058.pdf
- Keywords: boot packer, shear plane disruption, avalanche risk reduction
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- Title: The Canadian Avalanche Centre’s Long-Range Forecasting Programme
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ilya Storm
- Description: The Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) provides non-commercial backcountry users with regional avalanche forecasts and Special Public Avalanche Warnings ...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-034.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, forecasting program, cac, avalanche warnings
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- Title: I-90 Snoqualmie Pass: Evolution of an Interstate Highway Avalanche Program
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Craig Wilbour, John Stimberis
- Description: Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass, WA (921 m) is the major highway through the
Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Snoqualmie Pass receives an av...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-048.pdf
- Keywords: snow sheds, avalanche fences, explosives tramways, highways
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- Title: €Know Before You Go - An Avalanche Awareness Program for Teens with Rad Genes
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Craig J. Gordon
- Description: Basic avalanche education for young adults in Utah on a mass scale was non-existent for years. However, the rising numbers of young avalanche victims ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-282-286.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, awareness, education
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- Title: Public Participation in Snow Science
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Birgit Ottmer, Julia Wessels
- Description: Public awareness of snow and avalanche science and hence a research-friendly society
is and will become more and more important in an increasingly co...
- Object ID: issw-2006-917-924.pdf
- Keywords: knowledge transfer, publicity, credibility, image improvement, awareness rising
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- Title: United States Military Artillery for Avalanche Control Program: A Short History in Time
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Doug Abromeit
- Description: The U.S. Forest Service initiated avalanche control and forecasting in the United States. The Forest Service manages large tracts of publicly owned la...
- Object ID: ISSW-2004-012.pdf
- Keywords: military artillery, avalanche control, recoilless rifle, howitzer, forest service
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