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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: 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: 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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Title: Avalanche Awareness Raising in Finland - Development of Avalanche Education Curricula
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Eeva Mäkelä, Jussi Muittari, Kai Lehtonen
Description: Finland is a country of 5.4 million inhabitants in Northern Europe. Backcountry skiing and free skiing have gained popularity over the past 10 years a...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.38.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche awareness, finland
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Title: Two Decades of a Winter Backcountry Permit System - is This the 'Right' Tool to Encourage Avalanche Awareness, Education, and Responsibility?
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Patrick M. McGervey
Description: In Arizona, the Kachina Peaks rise to an elevation of over 3,800 meters providing a stark contrast to a relatively flat and arid landscape below. Slop...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.40.pdf
Keywords: permit system, education, public safety
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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: 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: Managing the Physical Risk From Avalanches in a Helicopter Skiing Operation--Merging and Contrasting Gps Tracking Data with the Operational Guiding Perspective
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins
Description: In the backcountry, physical risk from avalanches is managed by 1) assessing the nature, severity and spatial distribution of the local hazard based o...
Object ID: ISSW16_O5.02.pdf
Keywords: helicopter skiing, decision-making, risk management, terrain choices, gps tracking
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Title: Can We Derive an Avalanche Terrain Severity Rating from Observed Terrain Selection of Professional Guides? A Proof-Of-Concept Study
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Scott Thumlert, Pascal Haegeli
Description: The physical risk from snow avalanches poses a serious threat to backcountry recreationalists and the winter backcountry recreation industry. Professi...
Object ID: ISSW16_O5.03.pdf
Keywords: terrain selection, helicopter ski guiding, avalanche risk management, avalanche hazard, gis avalanche terrain classification
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Title: Applying and Communicating our Operations Working Memory
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jonathon Spitzer, Rachel Spitzer
Description: It is essential that avalanche forecasters and guides accurately recall and apply the details of past avalanche events. The operational capability to ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O5.04.pdf
Keywords: communication, risk management, working memory, guide
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Title: Triggered Avalanche - a Case Study From the Italian Alps
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Igor Chiambretti, Bernardino Chiaia, Barbara Frigo
Description: The 6th February 2014, two parties of 25 Heli-skiers (6 guides and 19 clients) and 3 snow observers were on activity on a large bowl at 2800 m elevati...
Object ID: ISSW16_O8.02.pdf
Keywords: heli ski; triggered avalanche; accident case study
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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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