Type: Trad, Alpine, 500 ft (152 m), 4 pitches, Grade III
FA: FA Mtn? FA route Will Merritt, Earlyn Deans, Robert Hall July 1967
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Shared By: Robert Hall on Mar 12, 2021
Admins: Robert Hall, Mark Roberts, Mauricio Herrera Cuadra, Kate Lynn, Braden Batsford

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We took off to climb Mt Enterprise, the experienced Will Merritt leading but upon reaching the cairn-less summit it was clear we were just a few feet lower than the summit of Colossal, about a couple of hundred yards to our southeast.  That evening it was discussed during dinner at the hut, without any definitive decision except that it didn’t seem that we’d climbed Enterprise.
Fifty+  years later, while converting Super-8 movies to digital I noticed that from our “summit” the “colossal-looking" summit of Mt Colossal  lined up with the summit of Mt Pioneer just to the right. The map showed this was only possible from the “North Peak of Colossal”, and not from Mt Enterprise.

Naturally, this climb involves glacial terrain and steep snow in addition to the rock, but I forgot to "check" these boxes when I put in the climb and there doesn't seem to be a way to add them after-the-fact.

Description - From Fairy Meadow cross to the lower Granite Glacier, cross to the west below the icefall ( still there today???) then up glacier and snow slopes to the right of the East ridge of Colossal ( see map photo) up to the flat basin just below the col between Colossal and Enterprise. (Route Photo 1)
From here go left up the slope towards the couloir in the East face ( Route Photo 2) cross the ‘shrund and climb up on snow and easy rock to the summit. (Take the # of feet and # of pitches with a grain of salt!) 

We descended by scrambling down rock to the col between the main summit and the north peak, then dropping down to the East ( i.e. directly in the direction towards Fairy Meadow) on rock and snow, crossing a ‘shrund and then following the crest of the “ east ridge” back to the Granite glacier. 

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Usual stuff for a day on the glacier followed by an easy rock scramble.

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