BC San Diego alumni gathered yesterday in El Cajon to take a hike through a portion of the Crestridge Ecological Reserve. The group walked a loop of about 1.6 miles in generally easy terrain with some great vistas.

L-R: Troy Johnson ’14, Lori Mahler P’11, Joe Mahler ’74 P’11, Tsu daughter, Lissa Tsu ’00, Brian Tsu ’00, Clark son (rear), Yilun Zhang ’21, Bill McDonald ’68, Catherine Larrabee Hamilton ’16, and Seth David Clark ’15.

We asked another hiker to take a photo of the group. After he did so, he told us he was a graduate of Boston University. Small world!

One interesting and atypical feature of this particular hiking route is a “storybook” section, where about 20 stations present brief sections of children’s stories. Kids can enjoy not only the stories, but locating the stations in order, which is rather easy to do. During our hike, the stories were by Dr. Seuss, who has a San Diego connection. Dr. Seuss’ real name was Theodore Geisel, and the iconic library at UC San Diego is named after him.