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Title: Using Thermal Imaging to Verify Avalanche Control Results
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Mark Saurer, Damian Jackson, Bill Nalli
Description: As the population of the Salt Lake Valley and popularity of backcountry skiing in the Wasatch continues to grow, so do the logistic difficulties of co...
Object ID: ISSW16_O2.02.pdf
Keywords: thermal imaging, avalanche control, irt
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Title: Climate Change Impacts on Utah's Central Wasatch Snowpacks
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Rand Decker, Hugo Froyland
Description: Climate change has resulted in winters that are much different than in previous decades. For the better part of 20 years, the central and southern Roc...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.09.pdf
Keywords: snowpack distribution, climate change, snowmelt, drought
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Title: Exemplary Actions of Education for Increasing the Resilience of Communities to Natural Hazards in High Mountain
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Paola Dellavedova, Océane Vibert, Luca Pitet, Jean Pierre Fosson, Valerio Segor, Alessandro Benati, Elisabetta Ceaglio, Nathalie Durand, Antoine Brulport
Description: In response to actual climatic variations and global warming, highlighted by the scorching summers of 2003 and 2015, major alpine faces within the Mo...
Object ID: ISSW16_O4.02.pdf
Keywords: mountaineering, natural hazards, education, resilience, risks, prévriskhautemontagne project
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Title: Stress Cortisol in Professional Ski Patrol
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Alex Bergeron, Jerry Johnson, Scott Creel
Description: Professional ski patrollers work in demanding and risky environments where stress is considered part of the job. Based on a previous study, the number...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.12.pdf
Keywords: stress, cortisol, avalanche mitigation, ski patrol
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Title: Observing Ski Touring and Decision making in the Alps. What Ordinary People Do or Not Do, and Why?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Bjørn Michaelsen, Carsten Rolland
Description: Recreational avalanche accident prevention seems to be based on a universal understanding of snow and avalanche science. This has led to an impressive...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.13.pdf
Keywords: ski touring, decision making, risk cultures, tradition, qualitative methods, avalanche education
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Title: Distance between Electronic Devices and Avalanche Transceivers on a Professional Ski Patrol
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Shawn Orloff
Description: Cellular phones and two-way radios are indispensable communication tools for professional ski patrollers. It has been well established that electronic...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, transceiver, electronic interference
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Title: Artificial Snow and its Impacts in a Ski Resort and its Mountain Hydrosystem: Example of Avoriaz Resort
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Elodie Magnier
Description: The practice of artificial snowmaking is recent (1950 in the United States) and since 1990, French resorts, including Avoriaz, as well as their Swiss...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-11.pdf
Keywords: artificial snow, water resource, mountain area, catchment area, hydrosystem
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Title: A Network-Based Approach for the Study of Criticalities in Ski-Resorts
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Valerio De Biagi, Barbara Frigo, Bernardino Chiaia
Description: The correct management of ski-resorts requires wide knowledge in mountain hazards, as well as a large experience. Usually ski-resorts cover a surface ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-34.pdf
Keywords: ski-resort management, graph theory, criticalities
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Title: Future Changes in Ski Resorts
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Stewart Sheppard
Description: Ski resorts are on the front line when confronted with the consequences of changes in the business environment, changes in climate and sociological ch...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-38.pdf
Keywords: weather patterns, energy markets, sociologial change, adaptation, future ski resorts
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Title: Risk Management With Mandatory Upper Risk Threshold in the World’s Largest Mountaineering School
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Manuel Genswein, Krister Kristensen
Description: At the beginning of the new millennium, the DAV Summit Club, the commercial mountaineering school of the German Alpine Club and world’s largest...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-03.pdf
Keywords: risk management, residual risk threshold, mountain guiding
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Title: Ski-Touring, Avalanche Risk and Human Factors
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Boris Valat, et Ludovic Ravanel
Description: Every winter, mountain practitioners are directly confronted with the question of avalanches. During the 2011-2012 season, 32 avalanche accidents and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-14.pdf
Keywords: ski touring, avalanche risk, human factors, decision making
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Title: Storm Snow Avalanches: Characteristics and Forecasting
Date: 2012
Authors: Edward H. Bair, Ron Simenhois, Alec van Herwijnen, Karl Birkeland, Jeff Dozier
Description: At ski areas, a majority of avalanches fail in storm snow. We investigate these avalanches using stability tests and avalanche observations from Calif...
Object ID: issw-2012-111-114.pdf
Keywords: storm snow, ski area, extended column test
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Title: An Experimental Dynamic Response Study of Hard Slab Seasonal Snow to Explosive Avalanche Hazard Mitigation
Date: 2012
Authors: Josephine Bones, Daniel Miller, Scotty Savage
Description: Avalanche hazard mitigation programs routinely use explosive charges to release avalanches and test slope stability, but fundamental understanding of ...
Object ID: issw-2012-142-148.pdf
Keywords: snowslope stability, avalanche control by explosives, blast bolt, hard slab,
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Title: Snow Immersion Suffocation- The Silent Killer at Ski Areas
Date: 2012
Authors: Paul Baugher
Description: From 1990/91 to 2011/12, there have been sixty-four Snow Immersion Suffocation (SIS) cases reported at U.S. ski areas. Comparing inherent risks at ski...
Object ID: issw-2012-220-226.pdf
Keywords: snow immersion, suffocation, sis, narsid, ski area, risk management, ski safety, skier education
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Title: The MLK Event At Crystal Mountain
Date: 2012
Authors: Christopher C. Morin
Description: The winter of 2010/2011 created a surprisingly widespread weak layer across the northwestern United States. In Washington state it became to be known...
Object ID: issw-2012-240-243.pdf
Keywords: snowfall, crusts, avalanche cycles, helicopter bombing
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