Battle Abbey in the Selkirks – Kings Backside and Steepness

We signed on to this trip after some people from the original group dropped out. The original group was from Idaho and Spokane ( Steve, Melissa, Warren, Cindy, Bill, Wayne and Scruffy), the dropouts were replace by myself and Lee, another person from Vancouver – Ilze and Arie from Calgary. Two other members of our trip were the partners of Rick the Caretaker – Robin and Kirk’s wife Jo. Day one had us heading up to Kings Landing and the Kings Backside.

Story has it the King of Spain was heli skiing in the area landed here to visit Battle Abbey.

After a 2.6km skin gaining 420m of elevation we were on the landing ready to ski 800m down the Backside. Once back up we skied down 900m on Steepness and back up the Grizzly Trot a 490m, 2.2km climb back to the Abbey.

1800m day in 7 hours.

Daily Skin