The Golden Hinde– DAY 1– Attempt One

I have wanted to summit the Golden Hinde for a long long time. I haven’t had a chance yet because it takes a minimum of three days.

My sister and I arrived at the parking lot at the Mount Myra Mine trail head at about 7 pm. We began hiking with the goal of reaching Arnica Lake by the time it was dark. This was a very unrealistic goal about four km in we were taking out our headlamps and hiking in the dark. We soon were hiking in a rain cloud and were soaked with rain. We had backpack covers and rain gear so this was not a huge deal.

When we finally reached the fist camp site we began quickly setting up our camp ground and my sister said “I just felt myself getting stung”.

I responded “how could you have been stung? It is night time and dark”, as I said this I felt a sting on my neck. I shone my light and saw five hornets flying toward me.

“We have got to move!”, we ran with our half assembled tent and stuff flying everywhere to a tent pad that was across the camp ground. Our stuff including the bottom of our tent was SOAKED. I got stung 5 times and my sister got stung 9. It was a long long cold night.

The next day we woke up and had to run and grab a few things off of the original tent pad. On it was a sign that said “Caution! Hornet’s nest under tent pad”