D's birthday

October 8th would have been Derek's 34th birthday. I knew it would be difficult so we came up with a plan to stay busy. We spent the day hiking as a family, Alpen made it all the way up Little Si. It was the perfect hike, a little cloudy but enough to feel like exercise. With dinner from Island Soul, one of D's favorites, we had all had a rusy nail (scotch + drambouie) which was a D favorite as well. Funny enough, I recently found a video Derek recorded at the top of the bigger Mt. Si, nearly 8 years exactly before. He's musing about his summer spent in Seattle anticipating returning to Pt. Reyes for another season of gridding.

I know many folks were thinking about D yesterday, and I wanted to share a birthday bingo that some of our friends here put together. If you'd like to participate too over the weekend, feel free to share any notes in the comments or photos with me and I can add them here. I thought this was a sweet and touching tribute that Derek would have really enjoyed. I couldn't upload it directly but hopefully this link will work. There MIGHT be a prize for the first person to report a completed bingo since Derek did love prizes. Check it out - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i4t7ohn1-p5xgWwY9M6xy1noBPG9BDGE/view?usp=sharing

Here's a link to the album updated with some pictures of all the Bingo fun - https://photos.app.goo.gl/BX2UizsPguUpcDWAA

Photos from Derek's 2012 Mt Si Hike

Photos from our hike this year. I don't have the group picture, but Marian, David, Jonathan, Byrne, Peggy, Alpen, Myra, Mike, and Veyla all came along. Alpen hiked the whole 4+ miles nearly all on his own!