You can reach Rosie at rosemary_langford@sfu.ca.

Rosie feels fortunate to have had the opportunity to begin her adventures in the backcountry at a young age, where she found joy, freedom, and a sense of curiosity. This has motivated her to learn more about the winter backcountry and what it means to create safe and fun backcountry experiences for a diversity of users. She is delighted and humbled to have the opportunity to learn from and alongside others and to share what she has learned in her role as an avalanche educator, as a Director with Mountain Mentors, and in her master’s research. Rosie acknowledges the intersecting privileges she hold that enable her learning and development in academic and backcountry settings, and she is committed to working to ensure that others can access and enjoy safe experiences in the outdoors. 

The objective of Rosie’s study is to identify and characterize the risk management practices that recreationists use when traveling in the backcountry. She cherishes the extraordinary privilege of meeting backcountry recreationists to and learn from them through in-depth interviews. Rosie approached her study with genuine curiosity and respect for the experiences, knowledges, needs, and insights shared in these interviews. She used qualitative analysis methods to represent these findings in a meaningful way. Her goal was that this study may empower users with knowledge and awareness of their own decision-making practices, and that it can contribute to informing recreational avalanche risk management decision-making supports that are representative and supportive of the diversity of users that exists in the backcountry. 

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