Secret Mission For The King - First Pitch To The Vault

This is the epic adventure that takes the Reader through the voyages to the Vault laid in Smuggler's Notch at the Pass in Stowe. The vault was created in the early parts of 1607 and has been hidden for quite some time.
I make the approach pitch to the base of the climb up a broken and soaking wet ridge line, that takes you the route's beginning up the vertical face. The route is now protected with a base anchor and a series of three anchors up the ridge along the most solid parts.
It is runout and scary as the water makes the loose rock even more slippery and unstable as you can see in the video. The route is a basic 90' long approach but requires a long 60M rope to rappel from the ring anchors at the top that I installed, to get safely back down. A tension belay at the bottom of the rappel is required to make the traverse across the wet terraced ledges.
The climb is rated about 5.6 R/X and I call it "Scarier Than Cancer".
Along the way the route itself doubles as the top anchors for two other routes, and the top rappel anchors double for 2 other main routes up from the base of the cliff at the very bottom of the main cliff under the Vault. All in all one route is now rigged and there are now 4 more available to climbers from the effort of a single majestic climb.
The route up to the vault from the rappel anchors to the second pitch is called "Unfinished", because of the shape taken from the Masonic Unfinished Pyramid carved as the shape of the entrance, and a symbol of the nature of what is encoded in these mysteries, another tale of future discoveries.
It's ready for the next session there and the breach of the Vault will be an amazing adventure to say the least.
The exposure is incredible and the images seen from the heights there over 300' off the ground, turned out to be one of the best views I have ever experienced on a climb. There are carvings all the way up at these heights of somewhat demonic looking faces, and the features of them can only be described by the warning that was laid about the bugs there......lol
'Terribilis est locus iste'.....so many skeeters and black flies, falling rocks and boulders the size of houses, and a fleet of tourists passing by under, that have no idea what is right above them.
Just a fair warning if you want to climb there, as there was a recent rock slide there after the extremely cold winter. We walked by a rock slide that had broken off and made a huge tear across the trail up.
There are plenty of beautiful carvings along the waterfront that are seen from a walking trail along a wooded path overlooking the lake, and are even handicap accessible to a degree for the disabled, so I recommend taking the easy route and enjoying the pictures and videos found in this Playlist and the facebook page that I created to show the entire series of movements from Rennes Le Chateau to Acadia, or New France, in Vermont.
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[@Tracks777]

Excellent video. Keep it up!

[@brownholecharles]

Marshfield Cliffs ???

[@blueexplorer76]

Naw this is the Pass in Stowe....AKA Smugglers Notch......prolly cases of Bootleg Whiskey in the vault....