March 23-30, 2002, Battle Abbey, Southern Selkirks

Battle Abbey is a commercial ski touring lodge run by CMH (Canadian Mountain Holidays). It is accessed from the Bobbie Burns helipad which is near Golden. See Chic Scott's book 'Summits and Icefields' for photographs and particulars. Good hut set-up with running hot/cold water, lights, indoor flush toilets. Excellent cooking and guiding. Fair to good skiing (32K verts). Breakable crust at the start of the week, then new snow, but accompanied by high winds. Considerable avalanche hazard. Apart from our triggering of a small cornice and several warning whumps, no avalanche activity near us, but we observed several large slides across a drainage.

Brent H